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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Then said Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing the LORD is departed from thee, and is become thine enemy?
1 Samuel
History / SamuelNow the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings
HistoryHe answered and said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they say unto him, Shall we go and buy two hundred pennyworth of bread, and give them to eat?
Mark
GospelsThy teeth are as a flock of sheep which go up from the washing, whereof every one beareth twins, and there is not one barren among them.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonAnd these were of the father of Etam; Jezreel, and Ishma, and Idbash: and the name of their sister was Hazelelponi:
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd the men of Israel and of Judah arose, and shouted, and pursued the Philistines, until thou come to the valley, and to the gates of Ekron. And the wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way to Shaaraim, even unto Gath, and unto Ekron.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd before I had done speaking in mine heart, behold, Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder; and she went down unto the well, and drew water: and I said unto her, Let me drink, I pray thee.
Genesis
Law / MosesBut he that had received one went and digged in the earth, and hid his lord's money.
Matthew
GospelsAnd when they were departed from him, (for they left him in great diseases,) his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city of David, but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraFor who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesHe that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThat the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.
Titus
Pauline Epistles / PaulNow I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for yet the vision is for many days.
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.
Genesis
Law / MosesTherefore neither the priests of Dagon, nor any that come into Dagon's house, tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod unto this day.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelBut Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard left certain of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBut neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised:
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesThere is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd they cut off his head, and stripped off his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to publish it in the house of their idols, and among the people.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd the thing pleased the children of Israel; and the children of Israel blessed God, and did not intend to go up against them in battle, to destroy the land wherein the children of Reuben and Gad dwelt.
Joshua
History / JoshuaThere was a certain creditor which had two debtors: the one owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty.
Luke
GospelsAnd the children of Israel gave to the Levites these cities with their suburbs.