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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Matthew and Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon called Zelotes,
Luke
Gospels / LukeFor though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd, behold, a man of the company cried out, saying, Master, I beseech thee, look upon my son: for he is mine only child.
Luke
Gospels / LukeWhen they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahRemove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd said, Where have ye laid him? They said unto him, Lord, come and see.
John
GospelsMine answer to them that do examine me is this,
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd there was not a man left in Ai or Beth-el, that went not out after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd Rehoboam took him Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David to wife, and Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse;
2 Chronicles
History / EzraBut David went and returned from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Beth-lehem.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd Penuel the father of Gedor, and Ezer the father of Hushah. These are the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephratah, the father of Beth-lehem.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd Michal Saul's daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelTo whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?
Job
WisdomAnd David made him houses in the city of David, and prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraBut when the Jews spake against it, I was constrained to appeal unto Caesar; not that I had ought to accuse my nation of.
Acts
History / LukeWhich say, It is not near; let us build houses: this city is the caldron, and we be the flesh.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsFor there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownBelievest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd the LORD said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people unto the LORD.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd a certain man of the sons of the prophets said unto his neighbour in the word of the LORD, Smite me, I pray thee. And the man refused to smite him.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd said unto him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle therein:
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahThe song of songs, which is Solomon's.