Job 36:21
Take heed, do not turn to evil, for because of this you have been tested by affliction.
Psalm 66:18
If I had harbored sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.
Hebrews 11:25
choosing rather to be ill-treated with the people of God than to enjoy sin's fleeting pleasure.
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 derision like water!
Job 35:3
But you say, 'What will it profit you,' and, 'What do I gain by not sinning?'
Ezekiel 14:4
Therefore speak to them and say to them, 'This is what the sovereign Lord says: When any one from the house of Israel erects his idols in his heart and sets the obstacle leading to his iniquity before his face, and then consults a prophet, I the Lord am determined to answer him personally according to the enormity of his idolatry.
Daniel 3:16-18
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego replied to King Nebuchadnezzar, "We do not need to give you a reply concerning this.
Daniel 6:10
When Daniel realized that a written decree had been issued, he entered his home, where the windows in his upper room opened toward Jerusalem. Three times daily he was kneeling and offering prayers and thanks to his God just as he had been accustomed to do previously.
Matthew 5:29-30
If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away! It is better to lose one of your members than to have your whole body thrown into hell.
Matthew 13:21
But he has no root in himself and does not endure; when trouble or persecution comes because of the word, immediately he falls away.
Matthew 16:24
Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone wants to become my follower, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.
Acts 5:40-41
and they summoned the apostles and had them beaten. Then they ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus and released them.
1 Peter 4:15-16
But let none of you suffer as a murderer or thief or criminal or as a troublemaker.