Hebrews 11:25 BSB — MannaFest

Hebrews 11:25

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

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

1 voice

Ephrem the Syrian

COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS (373)

"By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called a son of Pharaoh's daughter." If he had not believed in the promise of Abraham, he would have not refused to be corrupted by sin, nor would he have chosen to share ill …

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God - With those whom God had chosen to he his people - the Israelites. They were then oppressed and down-trodden; but they were the descendants of Abraham, and were those whom God had designed to be his special people. Moses saw that if he cast in his lot with them, he must expect trials. They were poor, and crushed, and despised - a nation of slaves.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

"Choosing" implies a deliberate resolution, not a hasty impulse. He was forty years old, a time when the judgment is matured. for a season--If the world has "pleasure" (Greek, "enjoyment") to offer, it is but "for a season." If religion bring with it "affliction," it too is but for a season; whereas its "pleasures are for evermore."

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
μᾶλλον	mallon	rather	G3123 →
ἑλόμενος	helomenos	having chosen	G138 →
συγκακουχεῖσθαι	sugkakoucheisthai	to suffer affliction with	G4778 →
τῷ	tō	the	G3588 →
λαῷ	laō	people	G2992 →
τοῦ	tou	<the>	G3588 →
θεοῦ	theou	of God	G2316 →
ἢ	ē	than	G2228 →
πρόσκαιρον	proskairon	[the] temporary	G4340 →
ἔχειν	echein	to have	G2192 →
ἁμαρτίας	hamartias	of sin	G266 →
ἀπόλαυσιν·	apolausin	enjoyment;	G619 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!
leads to
- Ezekiel 36:26
  I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
- Ephesians 4:22–24
  to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;
- Isaiah 43:18–19
  “Do not call to mind the former things; pay no attention to the things of old.
- John 3:3
  Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.”
- Psalms 51:10
  Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
Through
Psalms 84:10
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.
leads to
- Psalms 27:4
  One thing I have asked of the LORD; this is what I desire: to dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the…
- Psalms 26:8–10
  O LORD, I love the house where You dwell, the place where Your glory resides.
- Psalms 63:2
  So I have seen You in the sanctuary and beheld Your power and glory.