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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The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.
Proverbs
WisdomFor Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownWhosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.
1 John
General Epistles / JohnBut Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.
Jonah
Minor Prophets / JonahBeside their servants and their maids, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and there were among them two hundred singing men and singing women.
Ezra
HistoryAnd when it was told me how that the Jews laid wait for the man, I sent straightway to thee, and gave commandment to his accusers also to say before thee what they had against him. Farewell.
Acts
HistoryThus saith the Lord GOD; I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause their images to cease out of Noph; and there shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielTherefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahFor this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off.
Deuteronomy
LawWise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.
Proverbs
WisdomTherefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank.
Genesis
Law / MosesThou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThere were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.
Psalms
PoetryThen he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until thou comest to Shur, that is over against Egypt.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelFor there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.
Psalms
PoetryThe king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one;
Joshua
History / JoshuaThe inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.
Judges
History / SamuelThe fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd the men of Israel gathered themselves together out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued after the Midianites.
Judges
HistoryThe north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things?