Nehemiah 6:3

New International Version

so I sent messengers to them with this reply: “I am carrying on a great project and cannot go down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and go down to you?”

Cross References

Nehemiah 4:13

Therefore I stationed some of the people behind the lowest points of the wall at the exposed places, posting them by families, with their swords, spears and bows.

Nehemiah 6:2

Sanballat and Geshem sent me this message: “Come, let us meet together in one of the villages on the plain of Ono.” But they were scheming to harm me;

Nehemiah 6:4

Four times they sent me the same message, and each time I gave them the same answer.

Proverbs 14:15

The simple believe anything, but the prudent give thought to their steps.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.

Matthew 10:16

“I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.

Luke 14:30

saying, ‘This person began to build and wasn’t able to finish.’

John 9:4

As long as it is day, we must do the works of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work.