Cross References → Genesis 38:23

“Let her keep the items,” Judah replied. “Otherwise we will become a laughingstock. After all, I did send her this young goat, but you could not find her.”

Otherwise we will become a laughingstock

2 Samuel 12:9
Why then have you despised the command of the LORD by doing evil in His sight? You put Uriah the Hittite to the sword and took his wife as your own, for you have slain him with the sword of the Ammonites.
Proverbs 6:33
Wounds and dishonor will befall him, and his reproach will never be wiped away.
Romans 6:21
What fruit did you reap at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? The outcome of those things is death.
2 Corinthians 4:2
Instead, we have renounced secret and shameful ways. We do not practice deceit, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by open proclamation of the truth, we commend ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.
Ephesians 5:12
For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret.
Revelation 16:15
“Behold, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one who remains awake and clothed, so that he will not go naked and let his shame be exposed.”