And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And the LORD hath performed his word that he spake, and I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.
1 Kings
HistoryWherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesAnd whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.
Matthew
GospelsAnd after him Ibzan of Beth-lehem judged Israel.
Judges
HistoryMake no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury.
Luke
Gospels / LukeMy righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
Job
Wisdom / JobFor the LORD hath turned away the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their vine branches.
Nahum
Minor ProphetsWherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
1 Peter
General EpistlesHowbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd the people went out, and spoiled the tents of the Syrians. So a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the LORD.
2 Kings
HistoryHe restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
Psalms
PoetryLet a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd thy estimation shall be of the male from twenty years old even unto sixty years old, even thy estimation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAll the sons of Perez that dwelt at Jerusalem were four hundred threescore and eight valiant men.
Nehemiah
HistoryThe liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see.
Revelation
ApocalypticSuppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division:
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd it came to pass at the return of the year, that Ben-hadad numbered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahBecause thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh's servants, and in the sight of the people.
Exodus
LawNow they which were scattered abroad upon the persecution that arose about Stephen travelled as far as Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word to none but unto the Jews only.