Synonyms: humiliation, mortification, chagrin, ignominy, loss of face, shamefacedness, embarrassment, indignity, abashment, discomfort, discomfiture, discomposure, guilt, remorse, contrition, compunction, disgrace, dishonour, discredit, degradation, disrepute, ill-repute, infamy, scandal, odium, opprobrium, obloquy, condemnation, contempt, pity, misfortune, crying shame, cause for regret, source of regret, sad thing, unfortunate thing, discredit to, disgrace to, stain on, blemish on, blot on, blot on the escutcheon of, slur on, reproach to, bad reflection on, bring into disrepute, degrade, debase, defame, stigmatize, taint, sully, tarnish, besmirch, stain, blacken, drag through the mud/mire, give a bad name to, put in a bad light, humiliate, mortify, make someone feel ashamed, embarrass, abash, chasten, humble, put someone in their place, take down a peg or two, cut down to size, show up
Antonyms: honor, pride, respect, glory, praise, dignity, honor, esteem, glorification, laud, compliment, regard, credit, elevate, acclaim, pleasure, favor, kudos, recognition, flatter, admiration, greatness, happiness, self-confidence, reverence
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1. Jesus and Women
Luke 7:36--8:3
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R.T. France
... teacher” in 7:40. The impression given is that he has invited Jesus to dinner in order to make up his own mind about the man’s credentials. He is not impressed by Jesus’s failure to rebuke such a suggestive act by an obviously disreputable woman. 7:40  Jesus answered him. Simon’s thought was unspoken. By discerning it nonetheless, Jesus shows something of the prophetic insight that Simon was questioning. 7:41–43  Two people owed money. Like Nathan’s famous parable to David (2 Sam. 12:1–7 ...
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J. Will Ormond
... from and above other people. "God, I thank you that I am not like other people." Then he began to list the ways in which he was different. He evidently had a low estimate of his fellow human beings, for he lumped them under a list of disreputable characters: "thieves, rogues, adulterers." He singled out one of his temple companions as a special example of someone whom he was glad he was not like -- "even this tax collector." A tax collector in the minds of most law-abiding Pharisees was at the bottom of the ...
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Mark Trotter
... woman at the well. The woman at the well is the opposite of Nicodemus. If Nicodemus is the most respectable man in Jerusalem, the woman at the well is the most disreputable person anywhere. She is a Samaritan to begin with--that's bad enough for a Jew. But the story reveals that she's had a sordid life, a bad reputation, she's disreputable. And what's more, she's hardened. What she has been through in life has made her cynical. Religion to her is just something that condemns her, and she thinks religious ...
4. Two Women
Luke 1:39-45
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Mark Trotter
... would name a town near here and say it was like being from there, only to have someone after church one day tell me they were from that town. So I don't do that anymore. But I discovered there is a place that all San Diegans agree is a disreputable place, and that's Los Angeles. But that is where I am from. So I just want you to use your imagination and think of the most undistinguished, ignoble place that you possibly can, and that's the way Nazareth was. At least that is the reputation that Nazareth had ...
Understanding Series
Gordon D. Fee
... never able to acknowledge the truth.” According to 1 Timothy 5, among these women are some younger widows who “live for pleasure” (v. 6), have become “gossips and busybodies, saying things they ought not to” (v. 13), and by so doing are bringing the gospel into disrepute (v. 14). Some of them, Paul says, have “already turned away to follow Satan” (v. 15; cf. 2:14 and 4:2). His advice there is similar to what is given here. They should marry (ct. 4:3), have children (cf. 2:15), and take care ...
Understanding Series
Norman Hillyer
... true path (cf. Ps. 119:30). The metaphor of “way” for conduct, ethical behavior, is common in the OT, in intertestamental literature, and in Philo. See Didache 1:1–2; see also TDNT, vol. 5, pp. 42–96; NIDNTT, vol. 3, pp. 888, 933–47. Bring … into disrepute renders one word, blasphēmein, to revile, defame (2 Kings 19:4; Isa. 52:5; charged against Jesus, Matt. 9:3; 26:65; and against Stephen, Acts 6:11; confessed by Paul, 1 Tim. 1:13). Blasphemy will be characteristic of the last days (2 Tim. 3 ...
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Grant R. Osborne
... himself with despised sinners. “Sinners” could be a general reference to the common people (‘am-ha’arets, “people of the land”), who did not follow the oral traditions as assiduously as the Pharisees did, but more likely refers to socially disreputable and flagrant “sinners”—petty criminals, prostitutes, gamblers, or even Gentiles. This is a defining characteristic of Jesus, the sharing of table fellowship with those whom the rest of society has rejected (Luke 7:31–35; 10:38–42; 11:37 ...
8. Christ the King
Psalm 100:1-5, Ezekiel 34:1-31, Ephesians 1:15-23, Matthew 25:31-46
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William E. Keeney
... of the biblical language used to communicate the severity of consequences when persons neglect to show compassion and practice charity, as this parable does, is very graphic. In an age when democracy is touted as the ideal and arbitrary royal authority is in disrepute, persons may have trouble with the portrayal of God as a king with his retinue in all their splendor. A god who holds court and dispenses summary judgment would be much more familiar to the people who heard the parable originally. They would ...
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John N. Brittain
... the apostle Paul wrote to some Corinthian Christians. They were rich, wise, and strong, held in honor in their own opinion -- or as my mother would say they "thought they knew it all" -- while in their eyes Paul and the other apostles were weak and held in disrepute -- "fools for the sake of Christ." And this brings me to the second thing, or the other side of the coin. Authentic biblical faith, based as it is on a personal encounter with God and a recreation of the self in the divine image, will always be ...
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E. Carver McGriff
... ," it's a word that expresses what he was asking his people to do. It's to be found often in the New Testament and, frankly, isn't a very popular word in mainstream theology today. I suppose we've seen too many magazine cartoons showing some disreputable person carrying a placard with a motto that starts with the word REPENT in capital letters, then leads into a comic punch line. Certainly, a scolding approach to the faith these days fails to work for many of us. Yet, if there isn't a fundamental change ...
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Thomas Slavens
... adults the importance of receptivity. A child is usually open to new and larger ideas. Adults do well to keep their minds open to new truth. During a period in the history of Israel when the prophetic vision was dim and the priesthood had fallen into disrepute, the Lord spoke to the boy Samuel. When the child heard the call of God he replied, “Speak, for thy servant hears.” (1 Samuel 3:10b) Adults do well to say that to God, “Speak, for thy servant hears.” When Josiah, King of Judah, learned the ...
12. The Forgotten Virtue
Philippians 2:1-11
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Louis H. Valbracht
... You see what I, your Master, have done? I’ve washed your feet. You better start washing each other’s feet, if you want to follow my example." I remember a Communion Service in another parish in which I had just begun the Service, when a dirty, unshaven, disreputable looking man came in and took a seat in one of the pews. Later on, at Communion, he came forward, and was there at the rail, I recognized him as a man who had been in my former Marine regiment. He greeted me afterwards. He was just traveling ...
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David E. Leininger
... to the code to prevent people from being tempted to lie in court. Some were not even allowed to testify because they might consider perjuring themselves: relatives, friends, known enemies, anyone whose profession was thought of as in the least disreputable (dice-players, usurers or slaves - these days, we might want to add politicians). The Jewish legal system was designed to protect the rights of the accused at every turn. Circumstantial evidence was not permitted. So most certainly, fabricated verbal ...
14. The "E" Word
John 1:35-42
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David E. Leininger
... I do not guess too many of us would take that approach either. The problem is that most Christians, especially those of us from relatively conservative mainline traditions, take no approach at all. Evangelism is the "E" word; there is something mildly disreputable about it. We feel uncomfortable about the images it conjures up...accosting people on the street and stuffing a tract in their hands; threatening people with the fires of eternal hell like young Duffey Strode unless they make a commitment; revival ...
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Mark Clark
... , but it certainly is for a person in authority or an adult peer to use with another adult. Some of us are great at the old "ask-for-a-lot-settle-for-a-little" form of manipulation. Others rely on the famous "Bait and Switch" routine that disreputable salespeople use. From an early age we know how to manipulate. We know how to get our own way. Gomer Pyle had the best word for that scheming, false sort of Jacob within us. "Deceitful, Deceitful, Deceitful," Gomer would say. When I think of the big and small ...
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King Duncan
... that Jesus Christ could come into a life and change it, no matter how hopeless it seemed. After the service, when he and the other guest preachers were gathered in the minister's office, they were told that a man wanted to see them. A somewhat disreputable-looking man, they were warned ” unshaven, unwashed, poorly dressed. When the man did come in, he was reeking of alcohol, but his mind was full of the message he had just heard. "Do you really believe that Jesus can help me?" he asked. "Without a doubt ...
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Eric Ritz
... darkness. Bret Harte, in his classic short story "The Luck of Roaring Camp," tells of the birth of a baby on the American frontier a baby that made a radical change in a rough-and-tumble mining camp. The only woman in the camp, Cherokee Sal, a disreputable woman at best, died in childbirth, leaving a healthy young baby boy to be raised by the now all-male camp. These rough, hard men made a decision that would reflect changes that would come later. They considered hiring a woman nurse to care for the baby ...
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King Duncan
Jesus continually shocks us. No wonder the people of his own day crucified him. He wouldn't be too popular in our community. At least not among the better people in town. It is almost as if he preferred to associate with the disreputable, the rejects, the rubble of humanity. "Two men went up to pray," he said on one occasion, "a Pharisee and a tax collector." Now the audience was suppose to hiss and boo when the tax collector's title was given. The IRS is not too popular with us, but at ...
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Donald B. Strobe
... wonder of this. In a Christmas sermon he once remarked, “Our Lord was born of a line of ancestors whom the Evangelist Matthew arranges with artistry into three groups of fourteen patriarchs, fourteen kings, and fourteen princes. Among the latter were a number of disreputable characters, as we learn from the Book of Kings, and there are no savory women. God holds before us this mirror of sinners that we may know that he is sent to sinners, and from sinners is willing to be born!” (“The Martin Luther ...
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Donald B. Strobe
... about it? That’s always a danger, but nevertheless, those who know Christ cannot help but want to share that knowledge and that friendship with others. And that is what we mean by evangelism. Just lately, the word evangelism has come into disrepute as one televangelist after another has gotten into trouble or created a scandal. It is said that modern parents don’t worry about their children playing doctor, they are afraid that they might play television evangelist! That’s a shame, because evangelism ...
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Eric Ritz
... darkness. If you have light, then you are not scared or worried about the darkness. Bret Harte, in his classic short story "The Luck Of Roaring Camp," told of the birth of a baby on the American frontier. The woman of the mining camp, Cherokee Sal, a disreputable woman at best, died in childbirth, leaving a healthy young baby boy to be raised by the now all-male camp. These rough, hard men made a decision that would reflect the changes that would come later. They considered hiring a woman nurse to care for ...
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Mark Trotter
... . Let's look at it. The story begins with the calling of Matthew, which will be his Christian name. He is introduced to us for the first time here as Levi, the son of Alphaeus. He is a tax collector. Which means that he was disreputable, because he worked for the Romans, and therefore an outcast in the Jewish community. He was shunned by the righteous and officially labeled unclean. That meant that he could not enter the Temple. It meant that good people, those who tried to live moral lives, would ...
23. Poor Mary
Luke 1:39-45
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Mark Trotter
... , only to have people come up to me after the service, and say, "Wait a minute. I live in that town!" They were offended at that, so I don't do that anymore. There is only one town, I've discovered, that everybody in San Diego would agree is a disreputable place, and that is Los Angeles. So I could compare Nazareth with Los Angeles and get away with it, except that is where I'm from. So I am not going to do that. You will just have to use your imagination. Think of the most unsophisticated, small, out-of ...
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Leonard Sweet
... just how unexpected, and even off-the-wall, these new kingdom-mandated relationships might look to the rest of the world. First, the poor, the crippled, the blind and the lame (14:21) are brought to the banquet table. Then the worthless, spendthrift, disreputable son (15:21) is celebrated and welcomed. And now, even the debt-canceling actions of a dishonest manager is praised. These are unlovely people whose harsh, ugly lives can't be hidden. Yet as their actions bring the reality of the kingdom closer ...
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Leonard Sweet
... to handle. 8. Matthew: Lexus Matthew, the sinner/tax collector, finally chose to follow Jesus, the Teacher. His sins included caring more about money than honor. The publican class was the lowest in Judea. Matthew was devout and humble, especially about his disreputable and greedy past. He would be the disciple most likely to trade in his pre-Jesus car for a simpler, plainer model. Owning an expensive car, but not gaudy or flashy, Matthew would have sought to compensate for his miserable reputation with ...
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