Job 36:21
Take heed, do not regard iniquity; for you have chosen this rather than affliction.
Psalm 66:18
If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn't have listened.
Hebrews 11:25
choosing rather to share ill treatment with God's people, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time;
1 Peter 3:17
For it is better, if it is God's will, that you suffer for doing well than for doing evil.
Job 34:7-9
What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water,
Job 35:3
That you ask, 'What advantage will it be to you? What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?'
Ezekiel 14:4
Therefore speak to them, and tell them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "Every man of the house of Israel who takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet; I the LORD will answer him therein according to the multitude of his idols;
Daniel 3:16-18
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered the king, "Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter.
Daniel 6:10
When Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his chamber 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 causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you.[note: idiom meaning to stop doing a sin] For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.
Matthew 13:21
yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he 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
They agreed with him. Summoning the apostles, they beat them and commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.
1 Peter 4:15-16
For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil doer, or a meddler in other men's matters.