25. choosing rather to be evil entreated with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
26. accounting the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt: for he looked unto the recompense of reward.
27. By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
28. By faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that the destroyer of the firstborn should not touch them.