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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Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it.
Solomon's Song
PoetryAnd it was so, when the king went into the house of the LORD, that the guard bare them, and brought them back into the guard chamber.
1 Kings
HistoryPaul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;)
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesAnd they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesFor her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
Revelation
ApocalypticBut my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersI must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
John
Gospels / JohnCome, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle of her blood directly before the tabernacle of the congregation seven times:
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsIf I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSo Joshua took all that land, the hills, and all the south country, and all the land of Goshen, and the valley, and the plain, and the mountain of Israel, and the valley of the same;
Joshua
HistoryThey are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Psalms
PoetryAnd that son that is priest in his stead shall put them on seven days, when he cometh into the tabernacle of the congregation to minister in the holy place.
Exodus
Law / MosesFor if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd he returned to be healed in Jezreel because of the wounds which were given him at Ramah, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria. And Azariah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab at Jezreel, because he was sick.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThe great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors.
Proverbs
WisdomBe thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; let thy glory be above all the earth.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Moses said unto the LORD, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight.
Exodus
LawAnd I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd all the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over: the king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness.
2 Samuel
HistoryOn the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud, prince of the children of Ephraim, offered: