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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Their camels, four hundred thirty and five: six thousand seven hundred and twenty asses.
Nehemiah
HistoryIn the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the LORD laid, in the month Zif:
1 Kings
HistoryAnd over the olive trees and the sycomore trees that were in the low plains was Baal-hanan the Gederite: and over the cellars of oil was Joash:
1 Chronicles
History / EzraKing Agrippa, believest thou the prophets? I know that thou believest.
Acts
HistoryYea, the LORD shall give that which is good; and our land shall yield her increase.
Psalms
PoetryIn the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,
Ecclesiastes
WisdomSorrowing most of all for the words which he spake, that they should see his face no more. And they accompanied him unto the ship.
Acts
HistoryZalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite,
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanWherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required mine own with usury?
Luke
GospelsI am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd do ye abide without the camp seven days: whosoever hath killed any person, and whosoever hath touched any slain, purify both yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day.
Numbers
LawAnd I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.
Matthew
Gospels(As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
Jude
General EpistlesWhat hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high, and that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock?
Isaiah
Major ProphetsHe measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBe ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesAnd if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your sons cast them out? therefore shall they be your judges.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd thou shalt swear, The LORD liveth, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAfter this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.
Daniel
Major ProphetsO keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee.