Bible Verses About Shame

For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and in his Father’s, and of the holy angels.

And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.

Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.

Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause.

My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,

Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.

We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the Lord’s house.

Lest he that heareth it put thee to shame, and thine infamy turn not away.

Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more.

Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.

For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.

That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto them.

As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets,

Let me not be ashamed, O Lord; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.

Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they: they are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou confounded also, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters.

Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed: and the workmen, they are of men: let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; yet they shall fear, and they shall be ashamed together.

What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.

But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.

They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.

Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O Lord.

We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.

Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

The Lord of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the Lord.

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

Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments.

And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.

For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the Lord.

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

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.

Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.

They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.

That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord God.

Neither will I cause men to hear in thee the shame of the heathen any more, neither shalt thou bear the reproach of the people any more, neither shalt thou cause thy nations to fall any more, saith the Lord God.

Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.

Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.

He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.

For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.