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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Thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old.
Joshua
History / JoshuaWhich is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:
2 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesThen said Boaz, What day thou buyest the field of the hand of Naomi, thou must buy it also of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance.
Ruth
History / SamuelBukki his son, Uzzi his son, Zerahiah his son,
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd she said unto Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? art thou come unto me to call my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son?
1 Kings
HistoryBut Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David sware unto him, saying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not the light of Israel.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersForsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.
Psalms
PoetryIsrael hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaAnd that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion,
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsTo every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
Numbers
Law / MosesThe children of Bazlith, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha,
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahThen thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out?
Mark
Gospels / MarkThen answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
Job
WisdomAnd Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahBut if we shall say, Of men; we fear the people; for all hold John as a prophet.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all that are carried away captives, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem unto Babylon;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsMay be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesAnd they wrote letters by them after this manner; The apostles and elders and brethren send greeting unto the brethren which are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia:
Acts
History / LukeIf ye love me, keep my commandments.