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Psalms 66:18
If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened.
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Hebrews 11:25
choosing rather to share ill treatment with God’s people than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time,
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1 Peter 3 17
For it is better, if it is God’s will, that you suffer for doing well than for doing evil.
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Ezekiel 14:4
Therefore speak to them, and tell them,‘ The Lord Yahweh says:“ Every man of the house of Israel who takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet; I Yahweh will answer him therein according to the multitude of his idols;
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Matthew 5:29-30
If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.If your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.
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Matthew 16:24
Then Jesus said to his disciples,“ If anyone desires to 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 the king,“ Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter.If it happens, 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, let it be known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden image which you have set up.”
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Daniel 6:10
When Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house( now his windows were open in his room toward Jerusalem) and he kneeled on his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before.
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Job 35:3
that you ask,‘ What advantage will it be to you? What profit will I have, more than if I had sinned?’
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Acts 5:40-41
They agreed with him. Summoning the apostles, they beat them and commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.They therefore departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for Jesus’ name.
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Matthew 13:21
yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.
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1 Peter 4 15-1 Peter 4 16
For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil doer, or a meddler in other men’s matters.But if one of you suffers for being a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter.
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Job 34:7-9
What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water,Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men?For he has said,‘ It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.’