Hebrews 11:25 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁵ choosing rather to share ill-treatment with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁵ choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁵ Because he preferred to share the oppression [suffer the hardships] and bear the shame of the people of God rather than to have the fleeting enjoyment of a sinful life.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁵ choosing rather to share ill treatment with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;

Common English Bible

²⁵ He chose to be mistreated with God’s people instead of having the temporary pleasures of sin.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁵ choosing to be afflicted with the people of God, rather than to have the pleasantness of sin for a time,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁵ Rather choosing to be afflicted with the people of God, than to have the pleasure of sin for a time,

Hebrews 11:25 Cross References

Job 20:5

that the exulting of the wicked is short and the joy of the godless is but for a moment?

Job 36:21

Beware! Do not turn to iniquity; because of that you have been tried by affliction.

Psalm 47:9

The princes of the peoples gather as the people of the God of Abraham. For the shields of the earth belong to God; he is highly exalted.

Psalm 84:10

For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than live in the tents of wickedness.

Isaiah 21:4

My mind reels; horror has appalled me; the twilight I longed for has been turned for me into trembling.

Daniel 3:18

But if not, be it known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods and we will not worship the golden statue that you have set up.”

Matthew 13:21

yet such a person has no root but endures only for a while, and when trouble or persecution arises on account of the word, that person immediately falls away.

Luke 16:25

But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that during your lifetime you received your good things and Lazarus in like manner evil things, but now he is comforted here, and you are in agony.

Acts 7:34

I have surely seen the mistreatment of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their groaning, and I have come down to rescue them. Come now, I will send you to Egypt.’

Romans 5:3

And not only that, but we also boast in our afflictions, knowing that affliction produces endurance,

2 Corinthians 5:17

So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; look, new things have come into being!

Colossians 1:24

I am now rejoicing in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am completing what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church.

2 Timothy 1:8

Do not be ashamed, then, of the testimony about our Lord or of me his prisoner, but join with me in suffering for the gospel, in the power of God,

Hebrews 10:32

But recall those earlier days when, after you had been enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings,

Hebrews 11:37

They were stoned to death; they were sawn in two; they were killed by the sword; they went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, persecuted, tormented—

Hebrews 4:9

So then, a Sabbath rest still remains for the people of God,

James 1:20

for human anger does not produce God’s righteousness.

James 5:5

You have lived on the earth in luxury and in pleasure; you have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.

1 Peter 2:10

Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

Revelation 18:7

As she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, so give her a like measure of torment and grief. Since in her heart she says, ‘I rule as a queen; I am no widow, and I will never see grief,’