Hebrews 11:25

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

Cross References

Job 20:5

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

Job 36:21

Take heed, do not turn to iniquity, for this you have chosen rather than 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 thy 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.

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 or worship the golden image which you have set up.”

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.

Luke 16:25

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

Acts 7:34

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

Romans 5:3

More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,

2 Corinthians 5:17

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

Colossians 1:24

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I complete 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 testifying to our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but share in suffering for the gospel in the power of God,

Hebrews 10:32

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

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, ill-treated—

Hebrews 4:9

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

James 1:20

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

James 5:5

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

1 Peter 2:10

Once you were no 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 played the wanton, so give her a like measure of torment and mourning. Since in her heart she says, ‘A queen I sit, I am no widow, mourning I shall never see,’