Nehemiah 6:3

Modern English Version

So I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work, so I am not able to come down. Why should the work cease while I leave it and come down to you?”

Cross References

Nehemiah 4:13

Therefore I set guards at the lowest positions behind the wall, in open places. I also stationed the people by families, with their swords, spears, and bows.

Nehemiah 6:2

Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, “Come, that we might meet together in one of the villages in the plain of Ono.” But they planned to do evil to me.

Nehemiah 6:4

Four more times they sent for me like this, but I answered them the same way.

Proverbs 14:15

The simple gives credence to every word, but the prudent attends to his steps.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever your hands find to do, do with your strength; for there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol where you are going.

Matthew 10:16

“Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.

Luke 14:30

saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to complete it.’

John 9:4

I must do the works of Him who sent Me while it is day. Night is coming when no one can work.