Hebrews 11:25

Examples Of Faith In Action

²⁴ By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, ²⁵ choosing rather to endure ill-treatment with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin, ²⁶ He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward.

People of God

Pleasures of Sin

With God

For A Season

Israelites

Sin

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

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.

Job 21:11-13

They send out their little boys like a flock, and their children dance.

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 73:18-20

Truly you set them in slippery places; you make them fall to ruin.

Isaiah 21:4

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

Isaiah 47:8-9

Now therefore hear this, you lover of pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, "I am, and there is no one besides me; I shall not sit as a widow or know the loss of children":

Matthew 5:10-12

"Blessed are those who are 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, and when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately he falls away.

Luke 12:19-20

And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.'

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.

Acts 7:24-25

And seeing one of them being wronged, he defended the oppressed man and avenged him by striking down the Egyptian.

Acts 20:23-24

except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city that imprisonment and afflictions await me.

Romans 5:3

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

Romans 8:17-18

and if children, then heirs--heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.

Romans 8:35-39

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?

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.

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,

2 Thessalonians 1:3-6

We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing.

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,

2 Timothy 2:3-10

Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

2 Timothy 3:11-12

my persecutions and sufferings that happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra--which persecutions I endured; yet from them all the Lord rescued me.

Hebrews 4:9

So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people 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, mistreated--

James 1:20

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

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.

1 Peter 1:6-7

In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials,

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.

1 Peter 4:12-16

Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you.

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.'