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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For the LORD hath made Jordan a border between us and you, ye children of Reuben and children of Gad; ye have no part in the LORD: so shall your children make our children cease from fearing the LORD.
Joshua
History / JoshuaBecause they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd her parents were astonished: but he charged them that they should tell no man what was done.
Luke
GospelsAnd it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd there were windows in three rows, and light was against light in three ranks.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd no man was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.
Matthew
GospelsFrom thence they removed, and pitched in the valley of Zared.
Numbers
LawAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country.
Luke
GospelsReturn, return, O Shulamite; return, return, that we may look upon thee. What will ye see in the Shulamite? As it were the company of two armies.
Solomon's Song
PoetryAnd though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahHe shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.
Job
WisdomAnd a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any,
Luke
Gospels / LukeHe hath shewed his people the power of his works, that he may give them the heritage of the heathen.
Psalms
PoetryAs yet exaltest thou thyself against my people, that thou wilt not let them go?
Exodus
LawFor all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
Psalms
PoetryMoreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesBut the lad knew not any thing: only Jonathan and David knew the matter.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelSaying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive:
Acts
History / LukeAnd the LORD'S tribute of the sheep was six hundred and threescore and fifteen.
Numbers
Law / MosesYet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAs for thee, O king, thy thoughts came into thy mind upon thy bed, what should come to pass hereafter: and he that revealeth secrets maketh known to thee what shall come to pass.