Hebrews 11:25

English Standard Version 2016

choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin.

Cross References

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 dwell in the tents of wickedness.

2 Corinthians 5:17

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

Job 36:21

Take care; do not turn to iniquity, for this you have chosen rather than affliction.

Revelation 18:7

As she glorified herself and lived in luxury, so give her a like measure of torment and mourning, since in her heart she says, ‘I sit as a queen, I am no widow, and mourning I shall never see.’

Job 20:5

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

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.

James 5:5

You have lived on the earth in luxury and in self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.

James 1:20

for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.

Hebrews 11:37

They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were killed with the sword. They went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, mistreated—

Hebrews 10:32

But recall the former days when, after you were enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings,

Hebrews 4:9

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

2 Timothy 1:8

Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but share in suffering for the gospel by the power of God,

Colossians 1:24

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church,

Romans 5:3

Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,

Luke 16:25

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

Matthew 13:21

yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while, and when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately he falls away.

Isaiah 21:4

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

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!

Daniel 3:18

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

Acts 7:34

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