Job 36:21

NASB

Job 36:21

“Be careful, do not turn to evil,
For you have preferred this to affliction.

Psalm 66:18

If I regard wickedness in my heart,
The Lord will not hear;

Hebrews 11:25

choosing rather to endure ill-treatment with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin,

1 Peter 3:17

For it is better, if God should will it so, that you suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong.

Job 34:7-9

“What man is like Job,
Who drinks up derision like water,

Job 35:3

“For you say, ‘What advantage will it be to You?
What profit will I have, more than if I had sinned?’

Therefore speak to them and tell them, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “Any man of the house of Israel who sets up his idols in his heart, puts right before his face the stumbling block of his iniquity, and then comes to the prophet, I the Lord will be brought to give him an answer in the matter in view of the multitude of his idols,

Daniel 3:16-18

Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego replied to the king, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to give you an answer concerning this matter.

Daniel 6:10

Now when Daniel knew that the document was signed, he entered his house (now in his roof chamber he had windows open toward Jerusalem); and he continued kneeling on his knees three times a day, praying and giving thanks before his God, as he had been doing previously.

Matthew 5:29-30

If your right eye makes you stumble, tear it out and throw it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.

Matthew 13:21

yet he has no firm root in himself, but is only temporary, and when affliction or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he falls away.

Matthew 16:24

Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me.

Acts 5:40-41

They took his advice; and after calling the apostles in, they flogged them and ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and then released them.

1 Peter 4:15-16

Make sure that none of you suffers as a murderer, or thief, or evildoer, or a troublesome meddler;

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Summary

Job 36:21

Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.

Regard

Psalm 66:18

Ezekiel 14:4

Matthew 5:29

This

Bible References

Regard

If I

regard wickedness in my heart,

The Lord will not hear;

If your right eye makes you stumble, tear it out and throw it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to be thrown into

hell.

This

“What man is like Job,
Who drinks up derision like water,

“For you say, ‘What advantage will it be to You?

What profit will I have, more than if I had sinned?’

Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego replied to the king, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to give you an answer concerning this matter.

yet he has no firm root in himself, but is only temporary, and when affliction or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he

falls away.

Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me.

They took his advice; and after calling the apostles in, they flogged them and ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and then released them.

choosing rather to endure ill-treatment with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin,

For it is better, if God should will it so, that you suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong.

Make sure that none of you suffers as a murderer, or thief, or evildoer, or a

troublesome meddler;