Ezra 10:4
New King James Version
4 Arise, for this matter is your responsibility. We also are with you. (A)Be of good courage, and do it.”
Read full chapter
1 Chronicles 28:10
New King James Version
10 Consider now, (A)for the Lord has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary; be strong, and do it.”
Read full chapter
Hebrews 12:12-13
New King James Version
Renew Your Spiritual Vitality(A)
12 Therefore (B)strengthen the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees, 13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
Read full chapter
Hebrews 10:24
New King James Version
24 And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works,
Read full chapter
Ecclesiastes 9:10
New King James Version
10 (A)Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your (B)might; for there is no work or device or knowledge or wisdom in the grave where you are going.
Read full chapter
1 Chronicles 22:19
New King James Version
19 Now set your heart and your soul to seek the Lord your God. Therefore arise and build the sanctuary of the Lord God, to (A)bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord and the holy articles of God into the house that is to be built (B)for the name of the Lord.”
Read full chapter
Isaiah 35:3-4
New King James Version
3 (A)Strengthen the [a]weak hands,
And make firm the [b]feeble knees.
4 Say to those who are fearful-hearted,
“Be strong, do not fear!
Behold, your God will come with (B)vengeance,
With the recompense of God;
He will come and (C)save you.”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 35:3 Lit. sinking
- Isaiah 35:3 tottering or stumbling
Ezra 7:23-28
New King James Version
23 Whatever [a]is commanded by the God of heaven, let it diligently be done for the [b]house of the God of heaven. For why should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons?
24 Also we inform you that it shall not be lawful to impose tax, tribute, or custom on any of the priests, Levites, singers, gatekeepers, Nethinim, or servants of this house of God. 25 And you, Ezra, according to your God-given wisdom, (A)set magistrates and judges who may judge all the people who are in the region beyond the River, all such as know the laws of your God; and (B)teach those who do not know them. 26 Whoever will not observe the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily on him, whether it be death, or [c]banishment, or confiscation of goods, or imprisonment.
27 (C)Blessed[d] be the Lord God of our fathers, (D)who has put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to beautify the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem, 28 and (E)has extended mercy to me before the king and his counselors, and before all the king’s mighty princes.
So I was encouraged, as (F)the hand of the Lord my God was upon me; and I gathered leading men of Israel to go up with me.
Read full chapter
Mark 13:34
New King James Version
34 (A)It is like a man going to a far country, who left his house and gave (B)authority to his servants, and to each his work, and commanded the doorkeeper to watch.
Read full chapter
1 Chronicles 28:21
New King James Version
21 Here are (A)the divisions of the priests and the Levites for all the service of the house of God; and (B)every willing craftsman will be with you for all manner of workmanship, for every kind of service; also the leaders and all the people will be completely at your command.”
Read full chapter
1 Chronicles 22:16
New King James Version
16 Of gold and silver and bronze and iron there is no limit. Arise and begin working, and (A)the Lord be with you.”
Read full chapter
Joshua 7:10-26
New King James Version
The Sin of Achan
10 So the Lord said to Joshua: “Get up! Why do you lie thus on your face? 11 Israel has sinned, and they have also transgressed My covenant which I commanded them. (A)For they have even taken some of the [a]accursed things, and have both stolen and (B)deceived; and they have also put it among their own stuff. 12 (C)Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because (D)they have become doomed to destruction. Neither will I be with you anymore, unless you destroy the accursed from among you. 13 Get up, (E)sanctify[b] the people, and say, (F)‘Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, because thus says the Lord God of Israel: “There is an accursed thing in your midst, O Israel; you cannot stand before your enemies until you take away the accursed thing from among you.” 14 In the morning therefore you shall be brought according to your tribes. And it shall be that the tribe which (G)the Lord takes shall come according to families; and the family which the Lord takes shall come by households; and the household which the Lord takes shall come man by man. 15 (H)Then it shall be that he who is taken with the accursed thing shall be burned with fire, he and all that he has, because he has (I)transgressed[c] the covenant of the Lord, and because he (J)has done a disgraceful thing in Israel.’ ”
16 So Joshua rose early in the morning and brought Israel by their tribes, and the tribe of Judah was taken. 17 He brought the clan of Judah, and he took the family of the Zarhites; and he brought the family of the Zarhites man by man, and Zabdi was taken. 18 Then he brought his household man by man, and Achan the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, (K)was taken.
19 Now Joshua said to Achan, “My son, I beg you, (L)give glory to the Lord God of Israel, (M)and make confession to Him, and (N)tell me now what you have done; do not hide it from me.”
20 And Achan answered Joshua and said, “Indeed (O)I have sinned against the Lord God of Israel, and this is what I have done: 21 When I saw among the spoils a beautiful Babylonian garment, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, I [d]coveted them and took them. And there they are, hidden in the earth in the midst of my tent, with the silver under it.”
22 So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent; and there it was, hidden in his tent, with the silver under it. 23 And they took them from the midst of the tent, brought them to Joshua and to all the children of Israel, and laid them out before the Lord. 24 Then Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, the silver, the garment, the wedge of gold, his sons, his daughters, his oxen, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and (P)all that he had, and they brought them to (Q)the Valley of Achor. 25 And Joshua said, (R)“Why have you troubled us? The Lord will trouble you this day.” (S)So all Israel stoned him with stones; and they burned them with fire after they had stoned them with stones.
26 Then they (T)raised over him a great heap of stones, still there to this day. So (U)the Lord turned from the fierceness of His anger. Therefore the name of that place has been called (V)the Valley of [e]Achor to this day.
Read full chapterFootnotes
- Joshua 7:11 devoted
- Joshua 7:13 set apart
- Joshua 7:15 overstepped
- Joshua 7:21 desired
- Joshua 7:26 Lit. Trouble
Joshua 1:16-18
New King James Version
16 So they answered Joshua, saying, “All that you command us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go. 17 Just as we heeded Moses in all things, so we will heed you. Only the Lord your God (A)be with you, as He was with Moses. 18 Whoever rebels against your command and does not heed your words, in all that you command him, shall be put to death. Only be strong and of good courage.”
Read full chapterScripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Bible Gateway Recommends
