Job 36:21
Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this have you chosen rather than affliction.
Psalm 66:18
If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:
Hebrews 11:25
Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time;
1 Peter 3:17
For it is better, if the will of God be so, that you suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.
Job 34:7-9
What man is like Job, who drinks up scorn like water?
Job 35:3
For you said, What advantage will it be unto you? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
Ezekiel 14:4
Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus says the Lord GOD; Every man of the house of Israel that sets up his idols in his heart, and puts the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet; I the LORD will answer him that comes according to 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
Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before.
Matthew 5:29-30
And if your right eye causes you to offend, pluck it out, and cast it from you: for it is better for you that one of your members should perish, and not that your whole body should be cast into hell.
Matthew 13:21
Yet has he not root in himself, but endures for a while: for when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he is offended.
Matthew 16:24
Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
Acts 5:40-41
And to him they agreed: and when they had called the apostles, and beaten them, they commanded that they should not 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 as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters.