THEOSIS2 Kingdoms (2 Samuel) 6:22Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
I will both play and make myself meaner than I have done: and I will be little in my own eyes: and with the handmaids of whom thou speakest, I shall appear more glorious.
וּנְקַלֹּ֤תִי עוֹד֙ מִזֹּ֔את וְהָיִ֥יתִי שָׁפָ֖ל בְּעֵינָ֑י וְעִם־הָֽאֲמָהוֹת֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר אָמַ֔רְתְּ עִמָּ֖ם אִכָּבֵֽדָה׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- 1 Pet 4:14If you be reproached for the name of Christ, you shall be blessed: for that which is of the honour, glory and power of God, and that which is his Spirit resteth upon you.
- Isa 51:7Hearken to me, you that know what is just, my people who have my law in your heart: fear ye not the reproach of men, and be not afraid of their blasphemies.
- Heb 12:2Looking on Jesus, the author and finisher of faith, who, having joy set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and now sitteth on the right hand of the throne of God.
- Acts 5:41And they indeed went from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were accounted worthy to suffer reproach for the name of Jesus.
- Acts 5:42And every day they ceased not, in the temple and from house to house, to teach and preach Christ Jesus.
- Matt 5:11Blessed are ye when they shall revile you, and persecute you, and speak all that is evil against you, untruly, for my sake:
- Matt 5:12Be glad and rejoice for your reward is very great in heaven. For so they persecuted the prophets that were before you.
- Job 42:6Therefore I reprehend myself, and do penance in dust and ashes.