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Psalms 66:18
If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.
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Hebrews 11:25
choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin.
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1 Peter 3 17
For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God’s will, than for doing evil.
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Ezekiel 14:4
Therefore speak to them and say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Any one of the house of Israel who takes his idols into his heart and sets the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and yet comes to the prophet, I the Lord will answer him as he comes with the multitude of his idols,
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Matthew 5:29-30
If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell.
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Matthew 16:24
Then Jesus told his disciples,“ If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
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Daniel 3:16-18
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered and said to the king,“ O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter.If this be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.But if not, be it known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up.”
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Daniel 6:10
When Daniel knew that the document had been signed, he went to his house where he had windows in his upper chamber open toward Jerusalem. He got down on his knees three times a day and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as he had done previously.
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Job 35:3
that you ask,‘ What advantage have I? How am I better off than if I had sinned?’
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Acts 5:40-41
and when they had called in the apostles, they beat them and charged them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.Then they left the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for the name.
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Matthew 13:21
yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while, and when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately he falls away.
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1 Peter 4 15-1 Peter 4 16
But let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or an evildoer or as a meddler.Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in that name.
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Job 34:7-9
What man is like Job, who drinks up scoffing like water,who travels in company with evildoers and walks with wicked men?For he has said,‘ It profits a man nothing that he should take delight in God.’