Hebrews 11:25

Examples Of Faith In Action

²⁴ By faith, Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, ²⁵ choosing rather to share ill treatment with God's people, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time; ²⁶ accounting the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward.

People of God

Pleasures of Sin

With God

For A Season

Israelites

Sin

Job 20:5

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

Job 36:21

Take heed, don't regard iniquity; for you have chosen this rather than affliction.

Psalm 84:10

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

Job 21:11-13

They send forth their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.

Psalm 47:9

The princes of the peoples are gathered together, the people of the God of Abraham. For the shields of the earth belong to God. He is greatly exalted! A Song. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.

Psalm 73:18-20

Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.

Isaiah 21:4

My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me.

Isaiah 47:8-9

"Now therefore hear this, you who are given to pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, I am, and there is none else besides me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:

Matthew 5:10-12

Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

Matthew 13:21

yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

Luke 12:19-20

I will tell my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry."'

Luke 16:25

"But Abraham said, 'Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But now here he is comforted and you are in anguish.

Acts 7:24-25

Seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him who was oppressed, striking the Egyptian.

Acts 20:23-24

except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.

Romans 5:3

Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance;

Romans 8:17-18

and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

Romans 8:35-39

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

2 Corinthians 5:17

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

Colossians 1:24

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the assembly;

2 Thessalonians 1:3-6

We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you towards one another abounds;

2 Timothy 1:8

Therefore don't be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,

2 Timothy 2:3-10

You therefore must endure hardship, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

2 Timothy 3:11-12

persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. Out of them all the Lord delivered me.

Hebrews 4:9

There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God.

Hebrews 10:32

But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings;

Hebrews 11:37

They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated

James 1:20

for the anger of man doesn't produce the righteousness of God.

James 5:5

You have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

1 Peter 1:6-7

Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been put to grief in various trials,

1 Peter 2:10

who in time past were no people, but now are God's people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

1 Peter 4:12-16

Beloved, don't be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you, to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.

Revelation 18:7

However much she glorified herself, and grew wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning. For she says in her heart, 'I sit a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see mourning.'