8 Bible Verses about Outward Compulsion

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

As they were going out of the city, they found a Cyrenian named Simon, and they forced him to carry Jesus' cross.

They forced a certain passer-by, who was coming in from the country, to carry His cross -- Simon, a Cyrenian, the father of Alexander and Rufus.

Now as they led Him away, they seized a man named Simon, from Cyrene, as he was coming in from the country, and put the cross on his shoulders, for him to carry as he walked behind Jesus.

"Then the master said to his slave, 'Go out on the roads and by the hedges and make the people come in, so that my house may be filled.

So when Jesus learned that they were going to come and carry Him off by force to crown Him king, He again retired to the hill by Himself.

I have made a fool of myself, but you have forced me to do it, for I am the man who ought to have been constantly approved by you. For I am not a single bit inferior to your surpassingly superior apostles, though really I am "nobody."

These men who are trying to force you to let yourselves be circumcised simply want to make a fine outward show, only to keep you from being persecuted for the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.