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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But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBut thou, O LORD, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the heathen in derision.
Psalms
PoetryMatthew and Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon called Zelotes,
Luke
Gospels / LukeFor whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFrom thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation,
Numbers
LawTherefore Daniel went in unto Arioch, whom the king had ordained to destroy the wise men of Babylon: he went and said thus unto him; Destroy not the wise men of Babylon: bring me in before the king, and I will shew unto the king the interpretation.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielIn the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession.
Leviticus
LawEven those that were numbered of them after their families, were three thousand and two hundred.
Numbers
LawAnd the cloud of the LORD was upon them by day, when they went out of the camp.
Numbers
LawAccording to the number of years after the jubile thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, and according unto the number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee:
Leviticus
LawThey forgat God their saviour, which had done great things in Egypt;
Psalms
PoetryAnd I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.
Genesis
LawEphraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsAnd he said unto me, Son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it, to offer burnt offerings thereon, and to sprinkle blood thereon.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielForbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesThey said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did.
John
Gospels / JohnThe fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel they have no inheritance.
Numbers
LawThen all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.
Matthew
GospelsBut Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the hundreds, the officers of the host, and said unto them, Have her forth without the ranges: and him that followeth her kill with the sword. For the priest had said, Let her not be slain in the house of the LORD.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,
Numbers
Law / MosesAs they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.