Nehemiah 6:3
6:3 So I sent messengers to them saying, “I am engaged in an important work, and I am unable to come down. Why should the work come to a halt when I leave it to come down to you?”
Nehemiah 6:1
Opposition to the Rebuilding Efforts Continues
6:1 When Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and the rest of our enemies heard that I had rebuilt the wall and no breach remained in it (even though up to that time I had not positioned doors in the gates),
Nehemiah 1:5
1:5 Then I said, “Please, O
LORD God of heaven, great and awesome God, who keeps his loving covenant
with those who love him and obey
his commandments,
Job 4:3-6
4:3 Look, you have instructed many;
you have strengthened feeble hands.
4:4 Your words have supported those
who stumbled,
and you have strengthened the knees
that gave way.
4:5 But now the same thing comes to you,
and you are discouraged;
it strikes you,
and you are terrified.
4:6 Is not your piety your confidence,
and your blameless ways your hope?
Psalms 11:1-2
Psalm 11
For the music director; by David.
11:1 In the Lord I have taken shelter.
How can you say to me,
“Flee to a mountain like a bird!
11:2 For look, the wicked prepare their bows,
they put their arrows on the strings,
to shoot in the darkness at the morally upright.
Psalms 112:6
112:6 For he will never be upended;
others will always remember one who is just.
Psalms 112:8
112:8 His resolve is firm; he will not succumb to fear
before he looks in triumph on his enemies.
Proverbs 28:1
28:1 The wicked person flees when there is no one pursuing,
but the righteous person is as confident as a lion.
Isaiah 10:18
10:18 The splendor of his forest and his orchard
will be completely destroyed,
as when a sick man’s life ebbs away.
Luke 13:31-33
Going to Jerusalem
13:31 At that time, some Pharisees came up and said to Jesus, “Get away from here, because Herod wants to kill you.”
13:32 But he said to them, “Go and tell that fox, ‘Look, I am casting out demons and performing healings today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will complete my work.
13:33 Nevertheless I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the next day, because it is impossible that a prophet should be killed outside Jerusalem.’
Acts 8:1
8:1 And Saul agreed completely with killing
him.
Saul Begins to Persecute the Church
Now on that day a great persecution began against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were forced to scatter throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria.
Acts 20:24
20:24 But I do not consider my life
worth anything
to myself, so that
I may finish my task
and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the good news
of God’s grace.
Acts 21:13
21:13 Then Paul replied, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking
my heart? For I am ready not only to be tied up,
but even to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”
Hebrews 11:27
11:27 By faith he left Egypt without fearing the king’s anger, for he persevered as though he could see the one who is invisible.