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 north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Pilate, when he had called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people,
Luke
GospelsIf thy whole body therefore be full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle doth give thee light.
Luke
Gospels / LukeFor except we had lingered, surely now we had returned this second time.
Genesis
Law / MosesIf I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
Job
WisdomFear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAccording to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.
1 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the booty, being the rest of the prey which the men of war had caught, was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five thousand sheep,
Numbers
LawThen hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place, their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their cause, and forgive thy people which have sinned against thee.
2 Chronicles
HistoryOr darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.
Job
WisdomThe north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.
Proverbs
WisdomThe LORD will be terrible unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the heathen.
Zephaniah
Minor Prophets / ZephaniahThen stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and so the plague was stayed.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosAnd the sons of Kohath were, Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd it came to pass, when they saw him, that they brought thirty companions to be with him.
Judges
HistoryI am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled?
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd the men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who were the inhabitants in his city, did as Jezebel had sent unto them, and as it was written in the letters which she had sent unto them.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsOr whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, remaining thereon, the children of Israel abode in their tents, and journeyed not: but when it was taken up, they journeyed.
Numbers
LawBut without a parable spake he not unto them: and when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples.
Mark
GospelsTwo men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican.
Luke
Gospels / LukeDraw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.