Psalms 84:10

For a day in thy courts {is} better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. {I had...: Heb. I would choose rather to sit at the threshold}

2 Timothy 2:3-10

Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

Job 36:21

Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.

1 Peter 4:12-16

Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:

2 Corinthians 5:17

Therefore if any man {be} in Christ, {he is} a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. {he is: or, let him be}

Job 20:5

That the triumphing of the wicked {is} short, and the joy of the hypocrite {but} for a moment? {short: Heb. from near}

1 Peter 1:6-7

Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:

Psalms 73:18-20

Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.