Job 36:21
Take care, you must not turn to mischief, for because of this you have been tried by misery.
Psalm 66:18
If I had considered evil in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.
Hebrews 11:25
choosing instead to be mistreated with the people of God [rather] than to experience the transitory enjoyment of sin,
1 Peter 3:17
For [it is] better to suffer for doing good, {if God wills it}, than for doing evil.
Job 34:7-9
What man [is] like Job, who drinks scorn like water?
Job 35:3
If you ask what it profits you: 'How do I benefit {by refraining from my sin}?'
Ezekiel 14:4
Therefore speak with them, and you must say to them, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Every person from the house of Israel who brings up his idols into his heart and {places before himself} a stumbling block of his guilt and [yet] he comes to the prophet, I Yahweh, I will respond to him through this act with [respect to] the multitude of his idols,
Daniel 3:16-18
Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego answered and said to the king, Nebuchadnezzar, "We have no need on this matter {to present a defense to you}.
Daniel 6:10
Now {when} Daniel realized that the document was signed, he went to his house ({now he had windows in his upper room that were open} toward Jerusalem), and three times {daily} he knelt on his knees and prayed and [gave] praise before his God, {just as} he had been doing {previously}.
Matthew 5:29-30
And if your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw [it] from you! For it is better for you that one of your members be destroyed than your whole body be thrown into hell.
Matthew 13:21
But he does not have a root in himself, but {lasts only a little while}, and [when] affliction or persecution happens because of the word, immediately he falls away.
Matthew 16:24
Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone wants to come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
Acts 5:40-41
And they summoned the apostles, beat [them], commanded [them] not to speak in the name of Jesus, and released [them].
1 Peter 4:15-16
By all means do not let anyone of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or an evildoer or as a meddler.