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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I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThey are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
John
GospelsAnd I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBut my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the children of Israel carried away captive of their brethren two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took also away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraTurn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee;
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahThe LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name.
Exodus
LawAnd the seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families.
Joshua
HistoryBut as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWhen I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
Job
WisdomAnd he put them on the shoulders of the ephod, that they should be stones for a memorial to the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Exodus
LawTurn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the princes offered for dedicating of the altar in the day that it was anointed, even the princes offered their offering before the altar.
Numbers
Law / MosesProphesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say unto the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my fury, because ye have borne the shame of the heathen:
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd they removed from Etham, and turned again unto Pi-hahiroth, which is before Baal-zephon: and they pitched before Migdol.
Numbers
LawThen Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet Jeremiah's neck, and brake it.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThe LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesWhich said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?
Job
Wisdom / JobThe topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.
Job
WisdomBecause Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;
Esther
HistoryHave the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about, even the wheels that they four had.