Honor and shame imagery uses public honor, reproach, blushing, confounded faces, disgrace, or vindication to picture loyalty, humiliation, judgment, courage, or final reversal.
Honor and shame imagery uses public honor, reproach, blushing, confounded faces, disgrace, or vindication to picture loyalty, humiliation, judgment, courage, or final reversal.
A social-status and public-reputation motif in which honor, shame, reproach, blushing, face-confusion, contempt, despised status, or vindication language signifies covenant loyalty or disloyalty, public humiliation, persecution, moral exposure, divine approval, or eschatological reversal.
These examples show how Honor, Shame, Reproach, and Face-Confusion Imagery functions in biblical language, rhetoric, poetry, prophecy, narrative, or theological imagery.
them that honour me I will honour
Honor language expresses Gods public valuation of loyalty.
I am ashamed and blush
Corporate guilt is expressed through shame and blushing before God.
a reproach of men, and despised of the people
The sufferer is publicly shamed and mocked.
let me not be ashamed
The psalmist asks that trust in God not end in public disgrace.
the reproaches... are fallen upon me
Zeal for Gods house brings reproach upon the faithful sufferer.
not be ashamed nor confounded world without end
Final salvation is pictured as permanent freedom from shame.
I hid not my face from shame and spitting
The Servant willingly endures public humiliation.
shame and everlasting contempt
Final judgment includes everlasting shame and contempt.
I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ
Paul rejects shame because the gospel is Gods saving power.
despising the shame
Jesus endures the cross while disregarding its public disgrace.
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