Nehemiah 6:3

New Century Version

So I sent messengers to them with this answer: “I am doing a great work, and I can’t come down. I don’t want the work to stop while I leave to meet you.”

Cross References

Nehemiah 4:13

So I put people behind the lowest places along the wall—the open places—and I put families together with their swords, spears, and bows.

Nehemiah 6:2

So Sanballat and Geshem sent me this message: “Come, Nehemiah, let’s meet together in Kephirim on the plain of Ono.” But they were planning to harm me.

Nehemiah 6:4

Sanballat and Geshem sent the same message to me four times, and each time I sent back the same answer.

Proverbs 14:15

Fools will believe anything, but the wise think about what they do.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever work you do, do your best, because you are going to the grave, where there is no working, no planning, no knowledge, and no wisdom.

Matthew 10:16

“Listen, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. So be as clever as snakes and as innocent as doves.

Luke 14:30

saying, ‘This person began to build but was not able to finish.’

John 9:4

While it is daytime, we must continue doing the work of the One who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work.