Hebrews 11:25

Moses chose to suffer alongside God's people rather than enjoy sin's fleeting pleasures. Faith values lasting fellowship with God above temporary worldly comfort.

Cross-references · 32

• Ps 84:10For better is one day in Your courts than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.
• 2 Tim 2:3–10Join me in suffering, like a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
• Job 36:21Be careful not to turn to iniquity, for this you have preferred to affliction.
• 2 Cor 5:17Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!
• 1 Pet 4:12–16Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial that has come upon you, as though something strange were happening to you.
• Job 20:5the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?
• 1 Pet 1:6–7In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in various trials
• 2 Th 1:3–6We are obligated to thank God for you all the time, brothers, as is fitting, because your faith is growing more and more, and your love for one another is increasing.
• 1 Pet 2:10Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
• Rev 18:7As much as she has glorified herself and lived in luxury, give her the same measure of torment and grief. In her heart she says, ‘I sit as queen; I am not a widow and will never see grief.’
• Ps 73:18–20Surely You set them on slick ground; You cast them down into ruin.
• Acts 7:24–25And when he saw one of them being mistreated, Moses went to his defense and avenged him by striking down the Egyptian who was oppressing him.
• Matt 5:10–12Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
• Col 1:24Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is lacking in regard to Christ’s afflictions for the sake of His body, which is the church.
• Heb 10:32Remember the early days that you were in the light. In those days, you endured a great conflict in the face of suffering.
• Rom 8:35–39Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
• Jas 5:5You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in the day of slaughter.
• 2 Tim 1:8So do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, or of me, His prisoner. Instead, join me in suffering for the gospel by the power of God.
• Acts 20:23–24I only know that in town after town the Holy Spirit warns me that chains and afflictions await me.
• Isa 47:8–9So now hear this, O lover of luxury who sits securely, who says to herself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me. I will never be a widow or know the loss of children.’
• Jas 1:20for man’s anger does not bring about the righteousness that God desires.
• Luke 16:25But Abraham answered, ‘Child, remember that during your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things. But now he is comforted here, while you are in agony.
• Rom 5:3Not only that, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance;
• 2 Tim 3:11–12my persecutions, and the sufferings that came upon me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.
• Ps 47:9The nobles of the nations have assembled as the people of the God of Abraham; for the shields of the earth belong to God; He is highly exalted.
• Heb 11:37They were stoned, they were sawed in two, they were put to death by the sword. They went around in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, oppressed, and mistreated.
• Job 21:11–13They send forth their little ones like a flock; their children skip about,
• Isa 21:4My heart falters; fear makes me tremble. The twilight of my desire has turned to horror.
• Matt 13:21But since he has no root, he remains for only a season. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, he quickly falls away.
• Heb 4:9There remains, then, a Sabbath rest for the people of God.
• Rom 8:17–18And if we are children, then we are heirs: heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ—if indeed we suffer with Him, so that we may also be glorified with Him.
• Luke 12:19–20Then I will say to myself, “You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take it easy. Eat, drink, and be merry!”’

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