Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And said unto him, Thus saith Jephthah, Israel took not away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon:
Judges
History / SamuelThen shalt thou bring forth thy stuff by day in their sight, as stuff for removing: and thou shalt go forth at even in their sight, as they that go forth into captivity.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielWith a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh toward Jeshimon.
Numbers
Law / MosesNow a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof.
Job
WisdomThen contended I with the rulers, and said, Why is the house of God forsaken? And I gathered them together, and set them in their place.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd under their hand was an army, three hundred thousand and seven thousand and five hundred, that made war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy.
2 Chronicles
HistoryIs not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
Job
WisdomAnd he reared up the court round about the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the hanging of the court gate. So Moses finished the work.
Exodus
LawNow, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him.
2 Kings
HistoryThou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahBehold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire devoureth both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned. Is it meet for any work?
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielNow consider how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownAccording to the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt will I shew unto him marvellous things.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahLet them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.
Psalms
PoetryWith the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel: thou shalt make them to be set in ouches of gold.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbour, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this great city?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahOh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;
Job
WisdomAnd when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.
Genesis
LawAnd the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.
Exodus
LawThen said Saul to his servant, Well said; come, let us go. So they went unto the city where the man of God was.