And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect [that] which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.
Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded.
The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken [man] staggereth in his vomit.
Neither shall there be [any] work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.
Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed [be] Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.
For the LORD shall rise up as [in] mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as [in] the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.
Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, [even] a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise [men] shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent [men] shall be hid.
Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?
But when he seeth his children, the work of mine hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.
Yet he also [is] wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words: but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.
For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
And have cast their gods into the fire: for they [were] no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.
Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong [hand], and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward [is] with him, and his work before him.
Behold, ye [are] of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination [is he that] chooseth you.
Yea, before the day [was] I [am] he; and [there is] none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?
Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! [Let] the potsherd [strive] with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me.
Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: [yet] surely my judgment [is] with the LORD, and my work with my God.
Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.
Thy people also [shall be] all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.
For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
Behold, the LORD hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward [is] with him, and his work before him.
But now, O LORD, thou [art] our father; we [are] the clay, and thou our potter; and we all [are] the work of thy hand.
Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.
They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree [are] the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
For the customs of the people [are] vain: for [one] cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the ax.
Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple [is] their clothing: they [are] all the work of cunning [men].
They [are] vanity, [and] the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
Neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither do ye any work, but hallow ye the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.
And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken unto me, saith the LORD, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but hallow the sabbath day, to do no work therein;
Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.
Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; [that] useth his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work;
Thus saith the LORD; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears: for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the LORD; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.
Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes [are] open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:
For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have only done evil before me from their youth: for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, saith the LORD.
Cursed [be] he that doeth the work of the LORD deceitfully, and cursed [be] he that keepeth back his sword from blood.
The LORD hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth the weapons of his indignation: for this [is] the work of the Lord GOD of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.
Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.
The LORD hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.
They [are] vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
Render unto them a recompense, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
The appearance of the wheels and their work [was] like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work [was] as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.
Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work? or will [men] take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon?
Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire devoureth both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned. Is it meet for [any] work?
Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less shall it be meet yet for [any] work, when the fire hath devoured it, and it is burned?
I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers' skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk.
Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment [was of] fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil: and thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a kingdom.
How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord GOD, seeing thou doest all these [things], the work of an imperious whorish woman;
Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee.
Syria [was] thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate.
These [were] thy merchants in all sorts [of things], in blue clothes, and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among thy merchandise.
Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every one his neighbour's wife: and shall ye possess the land?
And after the league [made] with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
Gilead [is] a city of them that work iniquity, [and is] polluted with blood.
And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, [and] idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.
Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, [Ye are] our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.
Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.
Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy standing images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands.
Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for [I] will work a work in your days, [which] ye will not believe, though it be told [you].
What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
O LORD, I have heard thy speech, [and] was afraid: O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.
And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; [their] voice shall sing in the windows; desolation [shall be] in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.
And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and did work in the house of the LORD of hosts, their God,
Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith the LORD; and be strong, O Joshua, son of Josedech, the high priest; and be strong, all ye people of the land, saith the LORD, and work: for I [am] with you, saith the LORD of hosts:
Then answered Haggai, and said, So [is] this people, and so [is] this nation before me, saith the LORD; and so [is] every work of their hands; and that which they offer there [is] unclean.
And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, [they that] tempt God are even delivered.
And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
But what think ye? A [certain] man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my vineyard.
When Jesus understood [it], he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me.
And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed [them].
[For the Son of man is] as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.
And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.
And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, and said unto the people, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day.
Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.
Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?
Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.
They said therefore unto him, What sign showest thou then, that we may see, and believe thee? what dost thou work?
Jesus answered and said unto them, I have done one work, and ye all marvel.
I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.
I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought:
As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.
Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.
And thence sailed to Antioch, from whence they had been recommended to the grace of God for the work which they fulfilled.
But Paul thought not good to take him with them, who departed from them from Pamphylia, and went not with them to the work.
And running under a certain island which is called Clauda, we had much work to come by the boat:
Which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and [their] thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)
For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to [his] purpose.
For he will finish the work, and cut [it] short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.
And if by grace, then [is it] no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if [it be] of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed [are] pure; but [it is] evil for that man who eateth with offence.
Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord?
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
Now if Timotheus come, see that he may be with you without fear: for he worketh the work of the Lord, as I also [do].
And God [is] able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all [things], may abound to every good work:
But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.
For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform [it] until the day of Jesus Christ:
Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.
That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of [this] calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of [his] goodness, and the work of faith with power:
For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth [will let], until he be taken out of the way.
Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.
For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
This [is] a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work.
If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, [and] prepared unto every good work.
But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve [me] unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom [be] glory for ever and ever. Amen.
They profess that they know God; but in works they deny [him], being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,
For God [is] not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have showed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom [be] glory for ever and ever. Amen.
But let patience have [her] perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth [therein], he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
For where envying and strife [is], there [is] confusion and every evil work.
And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning [here] in fear:
And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward [is] with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
Moreover the [workers with] familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.
Moreover [there are] workmen with thee in abundance, hewers and workers of stone and timber, and all manner of cunning men for every manner of work.
[Is] not destruction to the wicked? and a strange [punishment] to the workers of iniquity?
Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.
[There is] no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.
Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the LORD hath heard the voice of my weeping.
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people [as] they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief [is] in their hearts.
There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down, and shall not be able to rise.
[A Psalm] of David. Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people [as] they eat bread: they have not called upon God.
Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men.
Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:
When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; [it is] that they shall be destroyed for ever:
For, lo, thine enemies, O LORD, for, lo, thine enemies shall perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.
[How long] shall they utter [and] speak hard things? [and] all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?
Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? [or] who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?
As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: [but] peace [shall be] upon Israel.
Keep me from the snares [which] they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.
The way of the LORD [is] strength to the upright: but destruction [shall be] to the workers of iniquity.
[It is] joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction [shall be] to the workers of iniquity.
But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.
[Are] all apostles? [are] all prophets? [are] all teachers? [are] all workers of miracles?
We then, [as] workers together [with him], beseech [you] also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
For such [are] false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.
Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
For God [is] my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, [which] is wonderful in counsel, [and] excellent in working.
Thus saith the Lord GOD; The gate of the inner court that looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon it shall be opened.
And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with [them], and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.
And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet.
Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?
To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another [divers] kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:
And what [is] the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,
Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power.
From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with [his] hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
[Even him], whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.
Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom [be] glory for ever and ever. Amen.
For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, [which] go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
Lo, all these [things] worketh God oftentimes with man,
He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.
He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.
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