Hebrews 11:25
having chosen rather to be afflicted with the people of God, than to have sin’s pleasure for a season,
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
24By faith Moses, having become great, refused to be called a son of the daughter of Pharaoh,
Cross References
Job 21:11They send forth their sucklings as a flock, || And their children skip,
Psalms 47:9Nobles of peoples have been gathered, || [With] the people of the God of Abraham, || For the shields of earth [are] to God, || Greatly has He been exalted!
Psalms 84:10For a day in Your courts [is] good, O Teacher! I have chosen rather to be at the threshold, || In the house of my God, || Than to dwell in tents of wickedness.
Isaiah 47:8And now, hear this, O luxurious one, || Who is sitting confidently—Who is saying in her heart, I [am], and none else, || I do not sit [as] a widow, nor know bereavement.
Matthew 13:21and he has no root in himself, but is temporary, and persecution or tribulation having happened because of the word, immediately he is stumbled.
Luke 16:25And Abraham said, Child, remember that you received your good things in your life, and Lazarus in like manner the evil things, and now he is comforted, and you are distressed;
Matthew Henry on Hebrews 11:5-32
Exemplars of Faith. ( a. d. 62.) 4 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh. 5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. 6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that… Read the whole commentary →