Be Not Ashamed

The cross of Golgatha

Romans 10:11 (NIV) As the Scripture says, "Anyone who trusts in him will never be put to shame."

Psalm 119:5-6 (NIV) Oh, that my ways were steadfast in obeying your decrees! Then I would not be put to shame when I consider all your commands.

2 Timothy 1:12 (NIV) That is why I am suffering as I am. Yet I am not ashamed, because I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him for that day.

Romans 9:33 (NIV)  As it is written: "See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes men to stumble and a rock that makes them fall, and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame."

1 Peter 4:16 (NIV) However, if you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed, but praise God that you bear that name.

2 Timothy 2:15 (NIV) Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.

Luke 9:26 (NIV) If anyone is ashamed of me and my words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.

“At first glance it is an extraordinary thing that Paul should say that he is "not ashamed" of the gospel. For when we read that statement we ask, "But why should anybody be ashamed of the gospel? Why should the apostle even think that something so grand might be shameful?" Questions like that are not very deep or honest, since we have all been ashamed of the gospel at one time or another. The reason is that the world is opposed to God's gospel and ridicules it, and we are all far more attuned to the world than we imagine.” James Montgomery Boice, [An Expositional Commentary – Joshua.]

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