Hebrews 11:25

In 9 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

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

YLT

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

DBY

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

DRC

Rather choosing to be afflicted with the people of God, than to have the pleasure of sin for a time,

GNV

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

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT

μᾶλλον ἑλόμενος συγκακουχεῖσθαι τῷ λαῷ τοῦ θεοῦ ἢ πρόσκαιρον ἔχειν ἁμαρτίας ἀπόλαυσιν,

RP2018

μᾶλλον ἑλόμενος συγκακουχεῖσθαι τῷ λαῷ τοῦ θεοῦ ἢ πρόσκαιρον ἔχειν ἁμαρτίας ἀπόλαυσιν·

TR-Boyd

μᾶλλον ἑλόμενος συγκακουχεῖσθαι τῷ λαῷ τοῦ Θεοῦ ἢ πρόσκαιρον ἔχειν ἁμαρτίας ἀπόλαυσιν·

SCR1894

μαλλον ελομενος συγκακουχεισθαι τω λαω του θεου η προσκαιρον εχειν αμαρτιας απολαυσιν

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• Psalms 84:10For 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 2:3–10Join me in suffering, like a good soldier of Christ Jesus. A soldier refrains from entangling himself in civilian affairs, in order to please the one who enlisted him. Likewise, a competitor does not receive the crown…
• Job 36:21Be careful not to turn to iniquity, for this you have preferred to affliction.
• 1 Peter 4:12–16Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial that has come upon you, as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoice that you share in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed at the…
• 2 Corinthians 5:17Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!
• Job 20:5the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?
• 1 Peter 1:6–7In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in various trials so that the proven character of your faith—more precious than gold, which perishes even though refined by…
• 1 Peter 2:10Once 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.
• Psalms 73:18–20Surely You set them on slick ground; You cast them down into ruin. How suddenly they are laid waste, completely swept away by terrors! Like one waking from a dream, so You, O Lord, awaken and despise their form.
• Revelation 18:7As 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.’
• 2 Thessalonians 1:3–6We 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. That is why we boast among God’s churches about…
• 2 Timothy 3:11–12my persecutions, and the sufferings that came upon me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them. Indeed, all who desire to live godly lives in Christ Jesus…
• James 5:5You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in the day of slaughter.
• James 1:20for man’s anger does not bring about the righteousness that God desires.
• Isaiah 47:8–9So now hear this, O lover of luxury who sits securely, who says to herself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me. I will never be a widow or know the loss of children.’ These two things will overtake you in a moment, in…
• Hebrews 10:32Remember the early days that you were in the light. In those days, you endured a great conflict in the face of suffering.

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