Verse 25
Chosyng rather to suffer aduersitie with the people of God, then to enioye the pleasures of sinne for a season:
Referenced Verses
- Ps 84:10 : 10 For one day in thy courtes, is better then a thousande els where: I had rather be a doore keper in the house of my God, then to dwell in large tabernacles of vngodlynes.
- Job 20:5 : 5 That the gladnesse of the vngodlie hath ben short, and that the ioy of hypocrites continued but the twinckling of an eye?
- Job 36:21 : 21 But beware that thou turne not aside to wickednesse and sinne, which hitherto thou hast chosen more then affliction.
- 2 Cor 5:17 : 17 Therfore yf any man be in Christe, he is a newe creature. Olde thynges are passed awaye, beholde all thynges are become newe.
- Col 1:24 : 24 Nowe iowe I in my sufferynges for you, and fulfyll that which is behynde of the passions of Christe, in my fleshe, for his bodyes sake, which is ye Church:
- 2 Thess 1:3-6 : 3 We are bound to thanke God alwayes for you brethren, as it is meete, because that your fayth groweth exceedyngly, and the loue of euery one of you toward another aboundeth: 4 So that we our selues reioyce in you in the Churches of God, ouer your pacience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye suffer, 5 Which is a token of the ryghteous iudgment of God, that ye may be counted woorthy of the kyngdome of God, for which ye also suffer. 6 For it is a ryghteous thing with God, to recompence tribulation to them that trouble you:
- 2 Tim 1:8 : 8 Be not thou therfore ashamed of the testimonie of our Lorde, neither of me his prisoner: but suffer thou aduersitie with the Gospell, accordyng to the power of God,
- 2 Tim 2:3-9 : 3 Thou therfore suffer afflictions as a good souldier of Iesus Christe. 4 No man that warreth, entangleth hym selfe with thaffayres of this lyfe, that he may please hym which hath chosen hym to be a souldier. 5 And if a man also wrestle, yet is he not crowned except he wrestle lawfullie. 6 The labouryng husbandman, must first be partaker of the fruites. 7 Consider What I say: and the Lorde geue thee vnderstandyng in all thinges. 8 Remember that Iesus Christe, of the seede of Dauid, was raysed from the dead, accordyng to my Gospell, 9 Wherin I suffer trouble as an euyll doer, euen vnto bondes: But the worde of God is not bounde. 10 Therfore I suffer all thynges for the electes sakes, that they myght also obtaine the saluation, which is in Christ Iesus, with eternall glorie.
- 2 Tim 3:11-12 : 11 Persecutions, afflictions, which came vnto me at Antioche, at Iconium, at Lystra, which persecutions I suffred patiently: And from them all, the Lord deliuered me. 12 Yea, and all that wyll lyue godly in Christe Iesus, shall suffer persecution.
- Heb 4:9 : 9 There remayneth therfore yet a rest to the people of God.
- Heb 10:32 : 32 Call to remebraunce the former dayes, in the which after ye had receaued light ye endured a great fyght of aduersities:
- Heb 11:37 : 37 They were stoned, were hewen asunder, were tempted, were slaine with sword, wandred about in sheepskinnes, and goates skinnes, beyng destitute, afflicted and tormented:
- Jas 1:20 : 20 For the wrath of man, worketh not that which is ryghteous before God.
- Jas 5:5 : 5 Ye haue liued in pleasure on the earth, and ben wanton: Ye haue nourisshed your heartes, as in a day of slaughter.
- 1 Pet 1:6-7 : 6 In the which ye reioyce, though nowe for a season (yf nede require) ye are in heauinesse through manifolde temptations: 7 That the triall of your fayth, beyng much more precious then golde that perisheth, though it be tried with fyre, myght be founde vnto laude, glorie, and honour, at the appearyng of Iesus Christe,
- 1 Pet 2:10 : 10 Which in time past were not a people, but are nowe the people of God: which sometime had not obteyned mercy, but nowe haue obteyned mercy.
- 1 Pet 4:12-16 : 12 Dearely beloued, thinke it not straunge concerning the fierie triall, which thing is to trye you, as though some straunge thyng happened vnto you. 13 But reioyce, in as much as ye are partakers of Christes passions: that when his glory appeareth, ye maye be mery and glad. 14 Yf ye be rayled vpon for the name of Christe, happy are ye. For the spirite of glory and of God, resteth vpon you: On their part he is euyll spoken of, but on your part he is glorified. 15 See that none of you be punished as a murtherer, or as a thiefe, or an euyll doer, or as a busie body in other mens matters. 16 Yf any man suffer as a Christian man, let hym not be ashamed, but let him glorifie God on this behalfe.
- Rev 18:7 : 7 And as much as she glorified her selfe & lyued wantonly, so much powre ye in for her of punishement & sorowe: for she said in her heart, I sit being a queene, and am no wydowe, and shall see no sorowe.
- Isa 21:4 : 4 My heart panted, fearefulnesse came vpon me: the nyght of my voluptuousnesse hath he turned agaynst me into feare.
- Isa 47:8-9 : 8 Heare nowe therefore thou delicate one that sittest so carelesse, and speakest thus in thyne heart, I am alone, and without me is there none, I shal neuer be widowe nor desolate agayne. 9 And yet both these thinges shal come to thee vpon one day, in the twinckeling of an eye, namely, widowhood and desolation: they mightyly fall vpon thee, for the multitude of thy witches, and for the great heape of thy coniurers.
- Matt 5:10-12 : 10 Blessed (are) they which suffer persecution for righteousnes sake: for theirs is the kyngdome of heauen. 11 Blessed are ye, whe (men) reuyle you, and persecute (you) and, lying, shall say all maner of euyll saying agaynst you, for my sake. 12 Reioyce, and be glad: for great is your rewarde in heauen. For so persecuted they the prophetes, whiche were before you.
- Matt 13:21 : 21 Yet hath he not roote in hym selfe, but dureth for a season: for when tribulation or persecution aryseth because of the worde, by and by he is offended.
- Luke 12:19-20 : 19 And I wyll saye to my soule: Soule, thou hast much goods layed vp in store for many yeres, take thyne ease, eate, drynke, and be mery. 20 But God sayde vnto hym: Thou foole, this nyght wyll they fetch awaye thy soule againe fro thee: Then whose shall those thynges be, which thou hast prouided?
- Luke 16:25 : 25 But Abraham sayde: Sonne, remember that thou in thy lyfe tyme, receauedst thy pleasure, and lykewyse Lazarus paynes: But nowe is he comforted, and thou art tormented.
- Acts 7:24-25 : 24 And when he sawe one of them suffer wrong, he defended hym, and auenged his quarrell that had the harme done to hym, and smote the Egyptian. 25 For he supposed his brethren woulde haue vnderstande, howe that God by his hande shoulde delyuer them: But they vnderstoode not.
- Acts 20:23-24 : 23 But that the holy ghost witnesseth in euery citie, saying that bondes & trouble abyde me. 24 But none of these thynges moue me, neither is my lyfe deare vnto my selfe, so that I myght fulfyll my course with ioy, and the ministerie whiche I haue receaued of the Lorde Iesu, to testifie the Gospell of the grace of God.
- Rom 5:3 : 3 Not that only: but also we reioyce in tribulations, knowyng that tribulation worketh pacience:
- Rom 8:17-18 : 17 If we be sonnes, then are we also heyres, the heyres of God, and ioyntheyres with Christe: So that we suffer together, that we may be also glorified together. 18 For I am certaynely perswaded that the afflictions of this tyme, are not worthy of the glory which shalbe shewed vpon vs.
- Rom 8:35-39 : 35 Who shall seperate vs from the loue of God? Shall tribulation or anguishe, or persecution, either hunger, either nakednesse, either peryll, either sworde? 36 As it is written: For thy sake are we kylled all daye long, and are counted as sheepe for the slaughter. 37 Neuerthelesse, in all these thinges we ouercome, through hym that loued vs. 38 For I am sure, that neither death, neither lyfe, neither angels, nor rule, neither power, neither thynges present, neither thynges to come, 39 Neither heygth nor deapth, neither any other creature, shalbe able to seperate vs from the loue of God, which is in Christe Iesu our Lorde.
- Ps 47:9 : 9 The princes of the people are assembled together for to be the people of the God of Abraham: for the shieldes of the earth be Gods, who is hyghly exalted.
- Ps 73:18-20 : 18 Truely thou doest set them in slippery places: and castest them downe headlong for to be destroyed. 19 Oh howe be they brought to a destruction euen vpon a sodayne: they faynt, they consume away for very dread. 20 They be as a dreame to a man after he is once waked: O Lorde thou wylt cause their image to be dispised in the citie.
- Job 21:11-13 : 11 They sende foorth their children by flockes, & their sonnes leade the daunce. 12 They beare with them tabrets and harpes, and reioyce in the sounde of the organs. 13 They spend their dayes in wealthines, but sodainely they go downe to the graue.