Hebrews 11:26

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Judging a part in the shame of Christ to be better than all the wealth of Egypt; for he was looking forward to his reward.

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  • Heb 2:2 : 2 Because if the word which came through the angels was fixed, and in the past every evil act against God's orders was given its full punishment;
  • Heb 10:35 : 35 So do not give up your hope which will be greatly rewarded.
  • Heb 13:13 : 13 Let us then go out to him outside the circle of the tents, taking his shame on ourselves.
  • 1 Pet 4:14 : 14 If men say evil things of you because of the name of Christ, happy are you; for the Spirit of glory and of God is resting on you.
  • Phil 3:7 : 7 But those things which were profit to me, I gave up for Christ.
  • Ps 89:50-51 : 50 Keep in mind, O Lord, the shame of your servants, and how the bitter words of all the people have come into my heart; 51 The bitter words of your haters, O Lord, shaming the footsteps of your king.
  • Prov 11:18 : 18 The sinner gets the payment of deceit; but his reward is certain who puts in the seed of righteousness.
  • Prov 23:18 : 18 For without doubt there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
  • Isa 51:7 : 7 Give ear to me, you who have knowledge of righteousness, in whose heart is my law; have no fear of the evil words of men, and give no thought to their curses.
  • Jer 9:23-24 : 23 This is the word of the Lord: Let not the wise man take pride in his wisdom, or the strong man in his strength, or the man of wealth in his wealth: 24 But if any man has pride, let it be in this, that he has the wisdom to have knowledge of me, that I am the Lord, working mercy, giving true decisions, and doing righteousness in the earth: for in these things I have delight, says the Lord.
  • Matt 5:12 : 12 Be glad and full of joy; for great is your reward in heaven: for so were the prophets attacked who were before you.
  • Matt 6:1 : 1 Take care not to do your good works before men, to be seen by them; or you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.
  • Matt 10:41 : 41 He who gives honour to a prophet, in the name of a prophet, will be given a prophet's reward; and he who gives honour to an upright man, in the name of an upright man, will be given an upright man's reward.
  • Luke 14:14 : 14 And you will have a blessing, because they will not be able to give you any payment, and you will get your reward when the upright come back from the dead.
  • Acts 5:41 : 41 So they went away from the Sanhedrin, happy to undergo shame for the Name.
  • 2 Cor 6:10 : 10 As full of sorrow, but ever glad; as poor, but giving wealth to others; as having nothing, but still having all things.
  • 2 Cor 12:10 : 10 So I take pleasure in being feeble, in unkind words, in needs, in cruel attacks, in troubles, on account of Christ: for when I am feeble, then am I strong.
  • Eph 1:18 : 18 And that having the eyes of your heart full of light, you may have knowledge of what is the hope of his purpose, what is the wealth of the glory of his heritage in the saints,
  • Eph 3:8 : 8 To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, was this grace given, so that I might make clear to the Gentiles the good news of the unending wealth of Christ:
  • Heb 11:6 : 6 And without faith it is not possible to be well-pleasing to him, for it is necessary for anyone who comes to God to have the belief that God is, and that he is a rewarder of all those who make a serious search for him.
  • Heb 10:33 : 33 In part, in being attacked by angry words and cruel acts, before the eyes of everyone, and in part, in being united with those who were attacked in this way.
  • Ruth 2:12 : 12 The Lord give you a reward for what you have done, and may a full reward be given to you by the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take cover.
  • Ps 37:16 : 16 The little which the good man has is better than the wealth of evil-doers.
  • Ps 69:7 : 7 I have been wounded with sharp words because of you; my face has been covered with shame.
  • Ps 69:20 : 20 My heart is broken by bitter words, I am full of grief; I made a search for some to have pity on me, but there was no one; I had no comforter.
  • Rev 2:9 : 9 I have knowledge of your troubles and how poor you are (but you have true wealth), and the evil words of those who say they are Jews, and are not, but are a Synagogue of Satan.
  • Rev 3:18 : 18 If you are wise you will get from me gold tested by fire, so that you may have true wealth; and white robes to put on, so that your shame may not be seen; and oil for your eyes, so that you may see.
  • 1 Pet 1:11 : 11 Attempting to see what sort of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them was pointing to, when it gave witness to the pains which Christ would undergo and the glories which would come after them.

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    27 By faith he went out of Egypt, not being turned from his purpose by fear of the wrath of the king; for he kept on his way, as seeing him who is unseen.

    28 By faith he kept the Passover, and put the sign of the blood on the houses, so that the angel of destruction might not put their oldest sons to death.

    29 By faith they went through the Red Sea as if it had been dry land, though the Egyptians were overcome by the water when they made an attempt to do the same.

  • Heb 11:22-25
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    22 By faith Joseph, when his end was near, said that the children of Israel would go out of Egypt; and gave orders about his bones.

    23 By faith Moses was kept secretly by his father and mother for three months after his birth, because they saw that he was a fair child; and they had no fear of the king's orders.

    24 By faith Moses, when he became a man, had no desire to be named the son of Pharaoh's daughter;

    25 Feeling that it was better to undergo pain with the people of God, than for a short time to have a taste of the pleasures of sin;

  • Heb 10:33-36
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    33 In part, in being attacked by angry words and cruel acts, before the eyes of everyone, and in part, in being united with those who were attacked in this way.

    34 For you had pity on those who were in prison, and had joy in the loss of your property, in the knowledge that you still had a better property and one which you would keep for ever.

    35 So do not give up your hope which will be greatly rewarded.

    36 For, having done what was right in God's eyes, you have need of waiting before his word has effect for you.

  • Heb 12:1-3
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    1 For this reason, as we are circled by so great a cloud of witnesses, putting off every weight, and the sin into which we come so readily, let us keep on running in the way which is marked out for us,

    2 Having our eyes fixed on Jesus, the guide and end of our faith, who went through the pains of the cross, not caring for the shame, because of the joy which was before him, and who has now taken his place at the right hand of God's seat of power.

    3 Give thought to him who has undergone so much of the hate of sinners against himself, so that you may not be tired and feeble of purpose.

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    13 All these came to their end in faith, not having had the heritage; but having seen it with delight far away, they gave witness that they were wanderers and not of the earth.

    14 For those who say such things make it clear that they are searching for a country for themselves.

  • Heb 11:8-10
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    8 By faith Abraham did as God said when he was ordered to go out into a place which was to be given to him as a heritage, and went out without knowledge of where he was going.

    9 By faith he was a wanderer in the land of the agreement, as in a strange land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who had a part with him in the same heritage:

    10 For he was looking for the strong town, whose builder and maker is God.

  • Heb 11:38-39
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    38 Wandering in waste places and in mountains and in holes in the rocks; for whom the world was not good enough.

    39 And not one of these got the good things of the agreement, though they all had a good record through faith,

  • Heb 13:13-14
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    13 Let us then go out to him outside the circle of the tents, taking his shame on ourselves.

    14 For here we have no fixed resting-place, but our search is for the one which is to come.

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    16 But now their desire is for a better country, that is to say, for one in heaven; and so it is no shame to God to be named their God; for he has made ready a town for them.

    17 By faith Abraham made an offering of Isaac, when he was tested: and he with whom the agreement had been made gave up as an offering the only son of his body,

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    1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the sign that the things not seen are true.

    2 For by it our fathers had God's approval.

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    16 And that there may not be any evil liver, or any man without respect for God, like Esau, who let his birthright go for a plate of food.

    17 For you have knowledge that even long after, when he was desiring the blessing for his heritage, he was turned away, though he made his request frequently and with weeping; because the past might not be changed.

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    19 Judging that God was able to give life even to the dead; and because of this he did get him back as if from death.

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    5 By faith Enoch was taken up to heaven so that he did not see death; he was seen no longer, for God took him away: for before he was taken, witness had been given that he was well-pleasing to God:

    6 And without faith it is not possible to be well-pleasing to him, for it is necessary for anyone who comes to God to have the belief that God is, and that he is a rewarder of all those who make a serious search for him.

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    29 But will not the man by whom the Son of God has been crushed under foot, and the blood of the agreement with which he was washed clean has been taken as an unholy thing, and who has had no respect for the Spirit of grace, be judged bad enough for a very much worse punishment?

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    17 For our present trouble, which is only for a short time, is working out for us a much greater weight of glory;

    18 While our minds are not on the things which are seen, but on the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are for a time; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

  • Heb 3:1-3
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    1 For this reason, holy brothers, marked out to have a part in heaven, give thought to Jesus the representative and high priest of our faith;

    2 Who kept faith with God who gave him his place, even as Moses did in all his house.

    3 And it was right for this man to have more honour than Moses, even as the builder of a house has more honour than the house.

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    15 And so, when he had been waiting calmly for a long time, God's word to him was put into effect.

  • Prov 13:18
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    18 Need and shame will be the fate of him who is uncontrolled by training; but he who takes note of teaching will be honoured.

  • Rom 15:3
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    3 For Christ did not give pleasure to himself, but, as it is said, The bitter words of those who were angry with you came on me.

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    2 Because if the word which came through the angels was fixed, and in the past every evil act against God's orders was given its full punishment;

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    12 So that you may not be slow in heart, but may take as your example those to whom God has given their heritage, because of their faith and their long waiting.

  • 1 Pet 1:8
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    8 To whom your love is given, though you have not seen him; and the faith which you have in him, though you do not see him now, gives you joy greater than words and full of glory:

  • Col 3:24
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    24 Being certain that the Lord will give you the reward of the heritage: for you are the servants of the Lord Christ.

  • Heb 11:36
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    36 And others were tested by being laughed at or by blows, and even with chains and prisons:

  • Acts 7:39
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    39 By whom our fathers would not be controlled; but they put him on one side, turning back in their hearts to Egypt,

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    11 Because of this, let us have a strong desire to come into that rest, and let no one go after the example of those who went against God's orders.

  • Phil 2:30
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    30 Because for the work of Christ he was near to death, putting his life in danger to make your care for me complete.