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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The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,
Acts
HistoryJesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewPlead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.
Psalms
PoetryThose by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd David was then in an hold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Beth-lehem.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanShall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
Amos
Minor ProphetsAnd it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith the LORD, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it; neither shall that be done any more.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsI thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulYe are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThe son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth,
Ezra
HistorySeeing then that these things cannot be spoken against, ye ought to be quiet, and to do nothing rashly.
Acts
History / LukeAnd Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.
Matthew
GospelsIt stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying,
Job
WisdomOf the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.
Numbers
LawWhose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed be the LORD; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsAnd all the congregation said that they would do so: for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.
1 Chronicles
HistoryTherefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd at evening let them return; and let them make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIf ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.
Malachi
Minor Prophets / MalachiAnd he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said:
Numbers
LawAnd Jesus rebuked the devil; and he departed out of him: and the child was cured from that very hour.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewIf thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.