Hebrews 11:25 “He chose to suffer oppression with God’s people rather than to experie…”

Hebrews 11:25

He chose to suffer oppression with God’s people rather than to experience the fleeting enjoyment of sin.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;

World English Bible

choosing rather to share ill treatment with God’s people than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time,

American Standard Version

choosing rather to share ill treatment with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;

Geneva Bible 1599

And chose rather to suffer aduersitie with the people of God, then to enioy the pleasures of sinnes for a season,

Darby Translation

choosing rather to suffer affliction along with the people of God than to have [the] temporary pleasure of sin;

Young's Literal Translation

having chosen rather to be afflicted with the people of God, than to have sin's pleasure for a season,

Bible in Basic English

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;

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Cross references

“Choosing”

Psalm 84:10 2 Timothy 2:3–10 Job 36:21 2 Corinthians 5:17 1 Peter 4:12–16 2 Thessalonians 1:3–6

Psalm 84:10 · BSB

For 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 Timothy 2:3–10 · BSB

Join me in suffering, like a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

Job 36:21 · BSB

Be careful not to turn to iniquity, for this you have preferred to affliction.

2 Corinthians 5:17 · BSB

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!

1 Peter 4:12–16 · BSB

Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial that has come upon you, as though something strange were happening to you.

2 Thessalonians 1:3–6 · BSB

We 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.

“the people”

1 Peter 2:10 Hebrews 4:9 Psalm 47:9

1 Peter 2:10 · BSB

Once 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.

Hebrews 4:9 · BSB

There remains, then, a Sabbath rest for the people of God.

Psalm 47:9 · BSB

The 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.

“the pleasures”

Job 20:5 Psalm 73:18–20 Revelation 18:7 Luke 16:25 James 5:5 Job 21:11–13

Job 20:5 · BSB

the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?

Psalm 73:18–20 · BSB

Surely You set them on slick ground; You cast them down into ruin.

Revelation 18:7 · BSB

As 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.’

Luke 16:25 · BSB

But 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.

James 5:5 · BSB

You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in the day of slaughter.

Job 21:11–13 · BSB

They send forth their little ones like a flock; their children skip about,

Also

Hebrews 11:37

Hebrews 11:37 · BSB

They 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.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

24By faith Moses, when he was grown, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter.

26He valued disgrace for Christ above the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking ahead to his reward.

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