Job 36:21
Beware, do not turn to iniquity; for this you have chosen rather than affliction.
Psalm 66:18
If I regard iniquity in my heart, Jehovah will not hear;
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 wills it, to suffer for well-doing than for evil-doing.
Job 34:7-9
What man is like Job, who drinks up scorning like water;
Job 35:3
For you say, What will it benefit you? And, What good shall I have more than if I had sinned?
Ezekiel 14:4
Therefore speak to them, and say to them, So says the Lord Jehovah: Every man of the house of Israel who sets up his idols in his heart, and puts the stumbling-block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet; I Jehovah will answer him in it by the host of his idols;
Daniel 3:16-18
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to return a word to you on this matter.
Daniel 6:10
And when he had learned that the document was signed, Daniel went to his house. And his windows were open in his roof room toward Jerusalem; and he kneeled on 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 offends you, pluck it out and throw it from you. For it is profitable for you that one of your members should perish, and not that your whole body should be thrown into hell.
Matthew 13:21
But he has no root in himself, and is temporary. For when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the Word, he immediately stumbles.
Matthew 16:24
Then Jesus said to His disciples, If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.
Acts 5:40-41
And they obeyed him. And calling the apostles, beating them, they commanded 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 a meddler in the affairs of others.