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19 Bible Verses About Shame

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  • Genesis 2:25 says the first man and woman “felt no shame”; after eating from the tree they hid, and Adam gave fear and nakedness as his reasons (Genesis 3:10).
  • Ezra 9:6 ties shame to real guilt, while Psalm 44 describes shame that came on a people who had “not been false” to God’s covenant.
  • Isaiah 54:4 promises that Zion will forget the shame of her youth, and Isaiah 61:7 promises a double portion in place of shame.
  • Romans 10:11 and 1 Peter 2:6 both quote the stone in Zion from Isaiah 28:16: whoever trusts in him “will never be put to shame.”
  • Hebrews 12:2 says Jesus endured the cross “scorning its shame,” and Mark 8:38 warns that the Son of Man will be ashamed of anyone ashamed of him.

The Bible treats shame both as the response to real wrongdoing and as disgrace that others put on a person, and it promises that those who trust God will not be put to shame. In Eden the man and woman “felt no shame” (Genesis 2:25) until they ate from the tree and hid (Genesis 3:10). Ezra 9:6 is a prayer from a man “too ashamed and disgraced” to lift his face, while Psalm 44:15 describes a nation covered with shame…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

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