8 Bible Verses about Outward Compulsion

and if any one will press you to go a mile with him, go with him the other two.

As they were going along, they met a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: and compelled him to carry the cross.

one Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus, as he pass'd by in his return out of the country, was compell'd to carry the cross.

As they were conducting him to execution, they seiz'd upon one Simon of Cyrene, who was coming to town, and oblig'd him to carry the cross after Jesus,

the master reply'd, go then to the high-ways and by-paths, and compel them to come in, that my house may be full.

but Jesus perceiving they designed to come and take him by force to make him a king, retired again upon a mountain all alone.

Am I become vain? 'tis you have forc'd me to it: for I ought to have been commended by you: since I am not inferior to the chiefest of the apostles, tho' in myself I am nothing.

they who desire to make a figure in the world, constrain you to be circumcised, only to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ.