Be careful not to turn to iniquity, for this you have preferred to affliction.
If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.
He chose to suffer oppression with God’s people rather than to experience the fleeting enjoyment of sin.
For it is better, if it is God’s will, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.
Then Jesus told His disciples, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow
At this, they yielded to Gamaliel. They called the apostles in and had them flogged. Then they ordered them not to speak
If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body
But since he has no root, he remains for only a season. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, he quickl
Therefore speak to them and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘When any Israelite sets up idols in his hear
For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’
Now when Daniel learned that the document had been signed, he went into his house, where the windows of his upper room o
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego replied to the king, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter.
What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water?
Indeed, none of you should suffer as a murderer or thief or wrongdoer, or even as a meddler.