Job 36:21
Take care; do not turn to iniquity, for this you have chosen rather than affliction.
Psalm 66:18
If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.
Hebrews 11:25
choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin.
1 Peter 3:17
For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God's will, than for doing evil.
Job 34:7-9
What man is like Job, who drinks up scoffing like water,
Job 35:3
that you ask, 'What advantage have I? How am I better off than if I had sinned?'
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,
Daniel 3:16-18
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered and said to the king, "O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter.
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.
Matthew 5:29-30
If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.
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.
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.
Acts 5:40-41
and when they had called in the apostles, they beat them and charged them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.
1 Peter 4:15-16
But let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or an evildoer or as a meddler.