Hebrews 11:25

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Summary

Hebrews 11:25

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

Choosing

The people

Hebrews 4:9

Psalm 47:9

1 Peter 2:10

The pleasures

Bible References

Choosing

Remember the earlier days when, after you had been enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings.

Be careful that you do not turn to iniquity,
for that is why you have been tested by affliction.

Better a day in Your courts
than a thousand anywhere else.
I would rather be at the door of the house of my God
than to live in the tents of wicked people.

Those who are persecuted for righteousness are blessed,
for the kingdom of heaven is theirs.

Yet he has no root in himself, but is short-lived. When pressure or persecution comes because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

When he saw one of them being mistreated, he came to his rescue and avenged the oppressed man by striking down the Egyptian.

except that in town after town the Holy Spirit testifies to me that chains and afflictions are waiting for me.

And not only that, but we also rejoice in our afflictions, because we know that affliction produces endurance,

and if children, also heirs—heirs of God and coheirs with Christ—seeing that we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him.

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away, and look, new things have come.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I am completing in my flesh what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for His body, that is, the church.

We must always thank God for you, brothers. This is right, since your faith is flourishing and the love each one of you has for one another is increasing.

So don’t be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord, or of me His prisoner. Instead, share in suffering for the gospel, relying on the power of God.

Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

along with the persecutions and sufferings that came to me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from them all.

for man’s anger does not accomplish God’s righteousness.

You rejoice in this, though now for a short time you have had to struggle in various trials

Dear friends, don’t be surprised when the fiery ordeal comes among you to test you as if something unusual were happening to you.

The people

Therefore, a Sabbath rest remains for God’s people.

The nobles of the peoples have assembled
with the people of the God of Abraham.
For the leaders of the earth belong to God;
He is greatly exalted.

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

The pleasures

the joy of the wicked has been brief
and the happiness of the godless has lasted only a moment?

They let their little ones run around like lambs;
their children skip about,

Indeed, You put them in slippery places;
You make them fall into ruin.

My heart staggers;
horror terrifies me.
He has turned my last glimmer of hope
into sheer terror.

“So now hear this, lover of luxury,
who sits securely,
who says to herself,
‘I exist, and there is no one else.
I will never be a widow
or know the loss of children.’

Then I’ll say to myself, “You have many goods stored up for many years. Take it easy; eat, drink, and enjoy yourself.”’

“‘Son,’ Abraham said, ‘remember that during your life you received your good things, just as Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here, while you are in agony.

You have lived luxuriously on the land and have indulged yourselves. You have fattened your hearts for the day of slaughter.

As much as she glorified herself and lived luxuriously,
give her that much torment and grief,
for she says in her heart,
“I sit as a queen;
I am not a widow,
and I will never see grief.”