8 Bible Verses about Outward Compulsion

And if anyone forces you to go one mile, go two with him.

As they were leaving, they found a man from Cyrene named Simon, whom they forced to carry Jesus' cross.

They forced a certain passer-by named Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus, who happened to be coming in from the country, to carry Jesus' cross.

As they led Jesus away, they grabbed Simon, a man from Cyrene, as he was coming in from the country, and they put the cross on him and made him carry it behind Jesus.

Then the master told the servant, "Go out into the streets and the lanes and make the people come in, so that my house may be full.

Then Jesus, realizing that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, withdrew again to the hillside by himself.

I have become a fool. You forced me to be one. Really, I should have been commended by you, for I am not in any way inferior to your "super-apostles," even if I am nothing.

These people who want to impress others by their external appearance are trying to force you to be circumcised, simply to avoid being persecuted for the cross of the Messiah.