Jeremiah 20:18

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Jeremiah 20:16–18 · Berean Standard Bible

16 May that man be like the cities that the LORD overthrew without compassion. May he hear an outcry in the morning and a battle cry at noon,

17 because he did not kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb forever enlarged.

18 Why did I come out of the womb to see only trouble and sorrow, and to end my days in shame?

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Genesis 3:17

And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

Genesis 3:18

Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.

Genesis 3:19

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Psalms 90:10

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Lamentations 1:12

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John 16:20

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Psalms 69:19

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Isaiah 1:6

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Isaiah 51:7

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Acts 5:41

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For it seems to me that God has displayed us apostles at the end of the procession, like prisoners appointed for death. We have become a spectacle to the whole world, to angels as well as to men.

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1 Corinthians 4:11

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1 Corinthians 4:12

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2 Timothy 1:12

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Hebrews 11:36

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Hebrews 12:2

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Therefore let us go to Him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace He bore.

1 Peter 4:14

If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.

1 Peter 4:15

Indeed, none of you should suffer as a murderer or thief or wrongdoer, or even as a meddler.

1 Peter 4:16

But if you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed, but glorify God that you bear that name.