Hebrews 11:25
23 By faith Moses’ parents hid him for three months after his birth, because they saw that he was a beautiful child, and they were unafraid of the king’s edict.
24 By faith Moses, when he was grown, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter.
He chose to suffer oppression with God’s people rather than to experience the fleeting enjoyment of sin.
26 He valued disgrace for Christ above the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking ahead to his reward.
27 By faith Moses left Egypt, not fearing the king’s anger; he persevered because he saw Him who is invisible.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- 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;
- DARBY
- choosing rather to suffer affliction along with the people of God than to have [the] temporary pleasure of sin;
- BLB
- having chosen to suffer mistreatment with the people of God rather than to have the temporary enjoyment of sin,
- ÅB
- idet han heller valgte å lide ondt sammen med Guds folk enn å ha en kortvarig nydelse av synden,
- OTB
- Han valgte heller å tåle mishandling med Guds folk enn å nyte syndens flyktige gleder.
- B1930
- idet han heller valgte å lide ondt sammen med Guds folk enn å ha en kortvarig nydelse av synden,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
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.
Read in context2 Timothy 2:3–10
Join me in suffering, like a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
Read in contextJob 36:21
Be careful not to turn to iniquity, for this you have preferred to affliction.
Read in context1 Peter 4:12–16
Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial that has come upon you, as though something strange were happening to you.
Read in context2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!
Read in contextJob 20:5
the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?
Read in context1 Peter 1:6–7
In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in various trials
Read in contextPsalms 73:18–20
Surely You set them on slick ground; You cast them down into ruin.
Read in context