Job 34:7-9, 35:3, Dan 3:16-18, 6:10, Mat 13:21, 16:24, Act 5:40-41 | ESV | STEP | What man is like Job , who drinks up scoffing like water ,

7 What man is like Job,
who ^adrinks up scoffing like water,
8 who travels in company with evildoers
and walks ^bwith wicked men?
9 For ^che has said, ‘It profits a man nothing
that he should take delight in God.’

Job 35:3

3 that you ask, ^d‘What advantage have I?
How am I better off than if I had sinned?’

Daniel 3:16-18

16 ^eShadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered and said to the king, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter. 17 If this be so, ^four God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king. ^{▼▼Or If our God whom we serve is able to deliver us, he will deliver us from the burning fiery furnace and out of your hand, O king.} 18 But if not, be it known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up.”

Daniel 6:10

10 When Daniel knew that the document had been signed, he went to his house where ^hhe had windows in his upper chamber open ⁱtoward Jerusalem. He got down on his knees ^jthree times a day and prayed and ^kgave thanks before his God, as he had done previously.

Matthew 13:21

21 yet he has no root in himself, but ^lendures for a while, and when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately ^mhe falls away. ^{▼▼Or stumbles}

Matthew 16:24

Take Up Your Cross and Follow Jesus

24 Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him ^odeny himself and ^ptake up his cross and follow me.

Acts 5:40-41

40 and ^qwhen they had called in the apostles, ^rthey beat them and charged them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go. 41 Then they left the presence of the council, ^srejoicing that they were counted worthy ^tto suffer dishonor for ^uthe name.