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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And the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valour: and Solomon seeing the young man that he was industrious, he made him ruler over all the charge of the house of Joseph.
1 Kings
HistoryOnly that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof;
Judges
History / SamuelThou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahThen David arose, and all the people that were with him, and they passed over Jordan: by the morning light there lacked not one of them that was not gone over Jordan.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanNow the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his goodness, behold, they are written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, and in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
2 Chronicles
HistoryFor that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
James
General EpistlesAnd this is the law of the Nazarite, when the days of his separation are fulfilled: he shall be brought unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:
Numbers
LawI say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThe land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.
Leviticus
LawEven these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.
Leviticus
Law / MosesYet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their evil heart: therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do; but they did them not.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsMine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?
Psalms
PoetryFor thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.
Psalms
PoetryYet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.
Genesis
Law / MosesThis shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD: where I will meet you, to speak there unto thee.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulIn that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahAnd thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel:
Exodus
LawThou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done.
1 Kings
HistoryTherefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonVerily I say unto you, I will drink no more of the fruit of the vine, until that day that I drink it new in the kingdom of God.