Neh 6:3
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?
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Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. {harmless: or, simple}
I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all. {to all: or, in all things}
Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.
The simple believeth every word: but the prudent {man} looketh well to his going.
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do {it} with thy might; for {there is} no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples {unto them}, and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables.
Then ceased the work of the house of God which {is} at Jerusalem. So it ceased unto the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.
And I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who {is there}, that, {being} as I {am}, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.
And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles.