Nehemiah 6:3

Contemporary English Version 1995

So I sent messengers to tell them, “My work is too important to stop now and go there. I can't afford to slow down the work just to visit with you.”

Cross References

John 9:4

As long as it is day, we must do what the one who sent me wants me to do. When night comes, no one can work.

Matthew 10:16

I am sending you like lambs into a pack of wolves. So be as wise as snakes and as innocent as doves.

Luke 14:30

They will say, “You started building, but could not finish the job.”

Proverbs 14:15

Don't be stupid and believe all you hear; be smart and know where you are headed.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Work hard at whatever you do. You will soon go to the world of the dead, where no one works or thinks or reasons or even knows anything.

Nehemiah 6:2

Then Sanballat and Geshem sent a message, asking me to meet with them in one of the villages in Ono Valley. I knew they were planning to harm me in some way.

Nehemiah 6:4

They invited me four times, but each time I refused to go.

Nehemiah 4:13

and so I sent people to guard the wall at its lowest places and where there were still holes in it. I placed them according to families, and they stood guard with swords and spears and with bows and arrows.