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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Thou, O king, hast made a decree, that every man that shall hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, shall fall down and worship the golden image:
Daniel
Major ProphetsTherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, am against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the LORD.
Amos
Minor ProphetsAnd when she had brought them unto him to eat, he took hold of her, and said unto her, Come lie with me, my sister.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThose that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.
Numbers
LawFor if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesLet thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
Proverbs
WisdomThat make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd they brought him on horses: and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThen said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahYea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.
Acts
History / LukeReuben, the eldest son of Israel: the children of Reuben; Hanoch, of whom cometh the family of the Hanochites: of Pallu, the family of the Palluites:
Numbers
Law / MosesHis bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.
Job
WisdomFor my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahTheir blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
John
GospelsNow when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.
Luke
GospelsAnd he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and the flocks and herds with young are with me: and if men should overdrive them one day, all the flock will die.
Genesis
Law / MosesThat through them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the LORD to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not.
Judges
HistoryFor now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulTheir wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThe north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name.