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
Scripture to anchor the day. Search by book, person, theme, or keyword.
And Amasa wallowed in blood in the midst of the highway. And when the man saw that all the people stood still, he removed Amasa out of the highway into the field, and cast a cloth upon him, when he saw that every one that came by him stood still.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThen all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewWoe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!
Ecclesiastes
WisdomWhen Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language;
Psalms
PoetryHis glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesHis bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the angel of the LORD came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for thee.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Beth-lehem-judah. And they came into the country of Moab, and continued there.
Ruth
History / SamuelThat lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosYet, LORD, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thus with them in the time of thine anger.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray.
Matthew
GospelsHe gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWe be twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd Jesse begat his firstborn Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimma the third,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.
Genesis
LawAnd the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, Therefore we turn again to thee now, that thou mayest go with us, and fight against the children of Ammon, and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.
Judges
History / SamuelThey shall eat the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; and every dedicated thing in Israel shall be their's.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAs I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;
Job
WisdomAnd the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, by whom we may enquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for he never prophesied good unto me, but always evil: the same is Micaiah the son of Imla. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThe young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith;
Philippians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd when the day was now far spent, his disciples came unto him, and said, This is a desert place, and now the time is far passed: