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Shame

The hiding that started in Eden, and the covering God provides.

Part of Topics & Trials

Also called: disgrace, reproach, hiding, ashamed, naked, dishonour

What Shame covers, and where it stops

This subject covers the hiding that started in Eden and the covering God provides. Guilt for a specific act, and its release, belong to Forgiveness. The self lifted above God belongs to Pride.

On this page, 7 sections

The one drawing

Across the canon

Old Testament

New Testament

The other 19 books of the canon carry none.

339 verses across 47 of the 66 books, Genesis to Revelation. A column is taller and brighter where the King James text returns to it. Each book with a verse in it opens that book.

11 passages

Where Scripture speaks

The passages this subject stands on, in canon order.

And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
Genesis 2:25KJVBefore the fall: naked and unashamed, nothing yet to hide
And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
Genesis 3:7KJVEyes opened, nakedness realized, fig leaves sewn as the first cover-up
And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
Genesis 3:10KJVAdam's own words name what changed: fear, nakedness, hiding
Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause.
Psalms 25:3KJVHope placed in God prayed to never end in shame
They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.
Psalms 34:5KJVThose who look to Him have faces not ashamed
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.
Isaiah 54:4KJVA promise to actually forget the shame of earlier years, not just manage it
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.
Jeremiah 6:15KJVA conscience so seared it can no longer feel shame at all, named as worse danger
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
Romans 1:16KJVPaul's flat refusal to be ashamed of a gospel centered on a shameful death
For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
Romans 10:11KJVWhoever believes on him will not be put to shame
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Hebrews 12:2KJVJesus endures the cross by despising its shame, not by feeling none of it
Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.
1 Peter 4:16KJVSuffering as a Christian named as no cause for shame at all
Adam and Eve are driven from Eden, the nakedness they once wore without shame now covered — and the garden closed behind them (Genesis 3:23-24).
Adam and Eve are driven from Eden, the nakedness they once wore without shame now covered — and the garden closed behind them (Genesis 3:23-24).Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

Shame in Scripture, in full

Shame in Scripture is the experience of exposure and unworthiness that drives hiding — from Adam and Eve in the garden to Peter after the denial. The Bible names shame honestly and offers covering that goes beyond fig leaves: the robe of righteousness, the restoration of Peter by the charcoal fire, the word to the woman caught ("neither do I condemn thee"). Shame is answered not by minimising the wrong but by the God who draws near.

4 voices

What teachers have said

“Why are people ashamed of being thought religious? Because they know nothing of religion. He who knows his Maker may glory in his God, for without him what has any soul but disgrace, pain, shame, and perdition? How strange is it that those who fear God should be ashamed to own it, while sinners boldly proclaim their relationship to Satan!”

Adam Clarke · Commentary on the Bible

Written before 1832.

“Now to none but my Christ can be assigned the occasion of such a shame as this. His whole course was so exposed to shame as to open a way for even the taunts of heretics, declaiming with all the bitterness in their power against the utter disgrace of His birth and bringing-up, and the unworthiness of His very flesh.”

Tertullian · Against Marcion Book IV

Written before 220.

“The wicked, again, even though they are exalted, are exalted only so as to have greater dishonour. For as one does not honour an ugly and mis-shapen fellow, if he exalts him, but only dishonours him the more, by making his shame manifest to a larger number”

Hippolytus of Rome · Hippolytus Exegetical Fragments

Written before 235.

“How astonishing the grace which at that moment gave promise of a Saviour and conferred on her who had the disgrace of introducing sin the future honor of introducing that Deliverer”

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown · Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871

The words underneath

Each card is one Hebrew or Greek word behind shame. It gives the sense, the count across the canon, and the number in Strong's 1890 concordance.

bosheth: shame

Hebrew · H1322
בֹּשֶׁת

Strong's entry: shame (the feeling and the condition, as well as its cause); by implication (specifically) an idol

sometimes stands for an idol

30 times in the Old Testament · bosheth, in full →

bush: be ashamed

Hebrew · H954
בּוּשׁ

Strong's entry: properly, to pale, i.e. by implication to be ashamed; also (by implication) to be disappointed or delayed

behind almost every 'ashamed' in the Old Testament

127 times in the Old Testament · bush, in full →

epaischynomai: be ashamed of

Greek · G1870
ἐπαισχύνομαι

Strong's entry: to feel shame for something

'ashamed of' in the NT

11 times in the New Testament · epaischynomai, in full →

kataischyno: to dishonor

Greek · G2617
καταισχύνω

Strong's entry: to shame down, i.e. disgrace or (by implication) put to the blush

the NT word for public shame

13 times in the New Testament · kataischyno, in full →

330 verses

The complete list

The King James text uses the language of shame in 339 verses. 9 of them are quoted above and the other 330 stand here, book by book. 2 more verses above show shame without using one of its words, so they are outside that count. Open a book to read the references with a clause of each verse.

Genesis3
Exodus1
Numbers2
Joshua1
Judges2
Ruth1
1 Samuel4
2 Samuel5
2 Kings7
1 Chronicles4
2 Chronicles2
Ezra2
Nehemiah5
Job8
Psalms67
Proverbs23
Isaiah34
Jeremiah42
Lamentations3
Ezekiel24
Daniel3
Hosea7
Joel5
Obadiah1
Micah6
Nahum1
Habakkuk2
Zephaniah6
Zechariah3
Mark2
Luke8
Acts3
Romans4
1 Corinthians7
2 Corinthians5
Ephesians1
Philippians2
1 Thessalonians1
2 Thessalonians1
1 Timothy4
2 Timothy4
Titus1
Hebrews6
1 Peter3
1 John1
Jude1
Revelation2

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