Hebrews 11:25 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

• Hebrews 11:25 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  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 descen...

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• Hebrews 11:25 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the (p) pleasures of sin for a season; (p) Such pleasures as he could not enjoy, unless he provoked God's wrath against him...

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• Hebrews 11:25 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The survey now passes from the age of the patriarchs to that of Moses and the Judges. It was the faith of his parents that saved Moses in his infancy; and his life, when he grew to manhood, had faith...

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• Hebrews 11:25 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Choosing . Having chosen. Greek. haireomai. See Philippians 1:1 ; Philippians 1:22 . suffer affliction with . Greek. sunka koucheomai. Only here. people . Greek. laos . See Acts 2:47 ....

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• Hebrews 11:25 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 2326 MOSES’ CHOICE Hebrews 11:24-26 . By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter; choosing rather to suffer affliction with the peop...

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• Hebrews 11:25 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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

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• Hebrews 11:25 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Choosing rather to suffer affliction— Three months after Moses was born, he was exposed in a bed of bulrushes on the river Nile. Pharaoh's daughter coming by, and guessing it to be one of the Hebre...

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• Hebrews 11:25 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; Balancing the best of the world with the worst of religion, he 'chose' the latter,...

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• Hebrews 11:25 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Heroes of Faith The Achievements of Faith, illustrated from the annals of Israel, beginning with the patriarchs and coming down to the martyrs. The writer has already mentioned faith as a necessar...

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• Hebrews 11:25 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Choosing. — Better, having chosen. His act was an expression of his deliberate choice. He joined his people because it was “the people of God.” To stand aloof for the sake of ease and pleasure wo...

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• Hebrews 11:25 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER XIII. A CLOUD OF WITNESSES. "By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even concerning things to come. By faith Jacob, when he was a-dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph; and worshipped...

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• Hebrews 11:25 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Making the Far-Seeing Choice Hebrews 11:23-31 Faith-we cannot say it too often-is the direct vision of the soul. It doesn't reason, it doesn't ask for evidences, it doesn't seek the corroborati...

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• Hebrews 11:25 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Then follows a series of illustrations of the power of faith taken from the history of the Hebrew people. The first is that by faith men know that the ages have been fashioned by the Word of God. Af...

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• Hebrews 11:25 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (20) By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come. (21) By faith Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph; and worshiped, leaning upon the top of his staff. (22)...

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• Hebrews 11:25 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God ,.... The Israelites, who were God's chosen and peculiar people, and were the true worshippers of him; Moses chose to be with those: the c...

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• Hebrews 11:25 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; Ver. 25. Choosing rather to suffer ] The happiest choice that ever the good man made....

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• Hebrews 11:25 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  By faith Moses None in the old world was more signalized by Providence in his birth, education, and actions, than Moses; hence his renown was both then and ever after very great; when he was come...

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• Hebrews 11:25 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  This chapter in itself forms a complete division of the book of Hebrews. If previously the doctrine has been thoroughly laid down that faith is the principle of all actual relationship with God, now...

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• Hebrews 11:25 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Exemplars of Faith. A. D.  62.       4 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cai...

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• Hebrews 11:25 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God: the same faith influenced his will, the cause of his former renunciation; for being in the present fruition of all court favours, and un...

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• Hebrews 11:25 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Faith As Revealed In Connection With The Life of Moses ( Hebrews 11:23-28 ). But then after a gap in time arose the one who would begin to solidify the promises. He would establish the nation of I...

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• Hebrews 11:25 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES Hebrews 11:23 . Proper child. —Goodly child; unusual for beauty and signs of intelligence; ἀστεῖον, goodly, fair, beautiful ( Acts 7:20 , “fair to God”). Hebrews...

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• Hebrews 11:25 - Scofield Reference Notes

  sin Sin ( See Scofield) - ( Romans 3:23 ).

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• Hebrews 11:25 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Hebrews 11:23-29 Moses. I. Israel is a typical nation. The things which happened to them" are recorded for our instruction and comfort. The things which happened unto them, happen unto us also. W...

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• Hebrews 11:25 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Hebrews 11:1-2 . Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good report. The names of those who lived in old time are handed...

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• Hebrews 11:25 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Hebrews 11:1 . Now faith is the substance of things hoped for. Paul uses here the same Greek word as in Hebrews 1:3 , that the Son is the express image of the Father's hypostasis, or person. Th...

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• Hebrews 11:25 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. On the senses in which the word ὑπόστασις (translated "substance") may be...

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• Hebrews 11:25 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The example of Moses:

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• Hebrews 11:25 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Peter 1:6 ; 1 Peter 1:7 ; 1 Peter 2:10 ; 1 Peter 4:12-16 ; 2 Corinthians 5:17 ; 2 Thessalonians 1:3-6 ; 2 Timothy 1:8 ; 2 Timothy 2:3-10 ; 2 Timothy 3:11 ; 2 Timothy 3:12 ; Acts 20:23 ;...

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• Hebrews 11:25 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  The Place of Faith Hebrews 11:1-26 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Unbelief is black with the frown of God; faith is regnant with the smile of God. Unbelief closes every channel of blessing; faith opens up...

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