8 Bible Verses about Outward Compulsion
Most Relevant Verses
And as they were going out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name, whom they compelled to carry his cross.
And they compel one Simon a Cyrenaean, who was passing by, coming from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to carry his cross.
And when they had led him away, they laid hold on one Simon a Cyrenaean, coming out of the country, and laid on him the cross, that he might bear it after Jesus.
And the lord said to the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and constrain them to come in, that my house may be filled.
Jesus therefore, knowing that they were about to come and take him by force to make him a king, withdrew again to the mountain alone.
I have become a fool; it is ye that compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you; for in nothing was I behind the very foremost apostles, though I am nothing.
As many as desire to make a fair show in the flesh, these are constraining you to be circumcised, only that they may not suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.
