8 Bible Verses about Outward Compulsion
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As they went out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name. They compelled this man to carry his cross.
And they compelled a passerby, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to carry his cross.
And as they led him away, they seized one Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, and laid on him the cross, to carry it behind Jesus.
And the master said to the servant, 'Go out to the highways and hedges and compel people to come in, that my house may be filled.
Perceiving then that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, Jesus withdrew again to the mountain by himself.
I have been a fool! You forced me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I was not at all inferior to these super-apostles, even though I am nothing.
It is those who want to make a good showing in the flesh who would force you to be circumcised, and only in order that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.