Bible Verses About Mistreatment

And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:

God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.

The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.

Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.

He made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them captives.

Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;

For the Lord will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.

If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?

I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.

When the wicked cometh, then cometh also contempt, and with ignominy reproach.

For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.

Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.

Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.

So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.

With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word.

Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you.

Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him:

Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not.

Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:

Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.

For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.

They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.

Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their hands,

And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.

But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:

Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.

I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.

In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.

For he shall be delivered unto the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and spitefully entreated, and spitted on:

Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.

Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.

Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee?

Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.

Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.

And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.

But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.