Isaac Stuart is not a leading member of a church consisting, as the early churches chiefly consisted, of what the world regard as the dregs of society--"the offscouring of all things.
While they thus triumphed, he who had begotten them in Christ was being treated as the offscouring and filth of the world.
Treated as the offscouringof all things, he was at last contemptuously beheaded in utter obscurity.
But when the offscouring of society, the reptiles that we could have trodden under foot, may rail at and scorn us with impunity, how doubly bitter, how perfectly insupportable must it be!
Is it because those who cherish it are treated as the offscouring of all flesh, in the place of their birth?
It was made up of those who had little influence, and who were esteemed "the filth of the world, and the offscouring of all things.
Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
They submitted themselves to all the injuries and affronts of men; to be accounted the plagues and troublers of the world, and as the scorn and offscouring of all things, and a gazing-stock to angels and to men.
Though we are here the scorn and offscouring of all things, we are as a gazing-stock to men and angels.
They were dead to the world, and willing to be accounted as the dung and offscouring of all things, so that they might win Christ.
You assert that they are infamous and base, the offscouring of the earth.
We are made as the filth of the world," he says, "the offscouring of all things.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "offscouring" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
