Job 36:21

English Standard Version 2016

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

Cross References

Hebrews 11:25

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

Psalm 66:18

If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.

1 Peter 3:17

For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God’s will, than for doing evil.

Matthew 16:24

Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.

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.

Daniel 6:10

When Daniel knew that the document had been signed, he went to his house where he had windows in his upper chamber open toward Jerusalem. He got down on his knees three times a day and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as he had done previously.

Ezekiel 14:4

Therefore speak to them and say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Any one of the house of Israel who takes his idols into his heart and sets the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and yet comes to the prophet, I the Lord will answer him as he comes with the multitude of his idols,

Job 35:3

that you ask, ‘What advantage have I? How am I better off than if I had sinned?’

Job 36:8

And if they are bound in chains and caught in the cords of affliction,

Job 36:10

He opens their ears to instruction and commands that they return from iniquity.

Job 36:15

He delivers the afflicted by their affliction and opens their ear by adversity.

Psalm 31:6

I hate those who pay regard to worthless idols, but I trust in the Lord.

Job 7:11

“Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.