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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One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
Numbers
Law / MosesBecause thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahEgypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahHowbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die.
2 Samuel
HistoryThe LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.
Psalms
PoetryThat being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Titus
Pauline EpistlesFor when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made their sweet savour, and poured out there their drink offerings.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterHeaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThou art the LORD the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham;
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahThe cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chesnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd the man of God was wroth with him, and said, Thou shouldest have smitten five or six times; then hadst thou smitten Syria till thou hadst consumed it: whereas now thou shalt smite Syria but thrice.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd Abdon, and Zichri, and Hanan,
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnNow therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son: but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned.
Genesis
LawAnd Abdon, and Zichri, and Hanan,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraRivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIs his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore?
Psalms
PoetryYe know that after two days is the feast of the passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified.
Matthew
GospelsFor the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut he that had received one went and digged in the earth, and hid his lord's money.
Matthew
GospelsThe sower soweth the word.
Mark
GospelsPilate answered, What I have written I have written.