Finishing What You Start Scriptures
Old Testament Reference
Listing in Alphabetic Order
Key verses for series:
“Whatever you do, work
heartily, as for the Lord and not for men.”
Colossians 3:23 ESV
“And let us not grow weary
of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up." Galatians 6:9 ESV
“You crown the year with
Your bounty;
Your wagon tracks overflow
with abundance.” Psalm 65:11 ESV
“I hasten and do not delay
to keep Your commandments.”
Psalm 119:60 ESV
How to use this guide:
We
have organized over 100 helpful verses (in the entire listing) for finishing what
you start to stay on task in completing your work, goals and
vision. Use these passages for daily study, motivation and
encouragement.
Meditate
on key words or phrases as to the direction God is/was leading, such as: “rise
up and go” and “with all eagerness” for leading or prompting from the Holy
Spirit.
The
scriptures are divided into three listing for convenience:
Old Testament Alphabetical
Order List
Ecclesiastes 7:8 ESV
Better is
the end of a thing than its beginning, and the patient in spirit is better than
the proud in spirit.
Ecclesiastes 7:8 KJV
Better is the
end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in
spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
Moses went
back to Jethro his father-in-law and said to him, “Please let me go back to my
brothers in Egypt to see whether they are still alive.” And Jethro said to
Moses, “Go in peace.” And the Lord said to Moses in Midian, “Go back to Egypt,
for all the men who were seeking your life are dead.” So, Moses took his wife
and his sons and had them ride on a donkey, and went back to the land of Egypt.
And Moses took the staff of God in his hand. And the Lord said to Moses, “When
you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the miracles that I
have put in your power. But I will harden his heart, so that he will not let
the people go. Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord, Israel is my
firstborn son.
Afterward
Moses and Aaron went and said to Pharaoh, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘Let my
people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.’” But Pharaoh
said, “Who is the Lord,
that I should obey his voice and let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, and
moreover, I will not let Israel go.” Then they said, “The God of the Hebrews
has met with us. Please let us go a three days' journey into the wilderness
that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God, lest he fall upon us with
pestilence or with the sword.” But the king of Egypt said to them, “Moses and
Aaron, why do you take the people away from their work? Get back to your
burdens.” And Pharaoh said, “Behold, the people of the land are now many, and
you make them rest from their burdens!”
Then the
people of the land discouraged the people of Judah and made them afraid to
build and bribed counselors against them to frustrate their purpose, all the
days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.
And in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, they wrote an
accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.
Ezra 6:14 ESV
And the
elders of the Jews built and prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the
prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. They finished their building by decree
of the God of Israel and by decree of Cyrus and Darius and Artaxerxes king of
Persia.
Ezra 6:14 KJV
And the
elders of the Jews builded, and they prospered through the prophesying of
Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they builded, and
finished it, according to the commandment of the God of
Israel, and according to the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes
king of Persia.
Genesis 1:1 ESV
In the
beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
Genesis 2:1-3 ESV
Thus, the
heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the
seventh day God finished His work that He had done, and He rested on the
seventh day from all His work that He had done. So, God blessed the seventh day
and made it holy, because on it God rested from all His work that He had done
in creation.
Genesis 2:1–3 KJV
1) Thus the
heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
2) And on
the seventh day God ended His work which He had made; and He rested on the
seventh day from all His work which He had made.
3) And God
blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it He had rested
from all His work which God created and made.
You looked
for much, and behold, it came to little. And when you brought it home, I blew
it away. Why? declares the Lord of
hosts. Because of my house that lies in ruins, while each of you busies himself
with his own house. Therefore, the heavens above you have withheld the dew, and
the earth has withheld its produce. And I have called for a drought on the land
and the hills, on the grain, the new wine, the oil, on what the ground brings
forth, on man and beast, and on all their labors.
Isaiah 10:23 ESV
For the
Lord God of
hosts will make a full end, as decreed, in the midst of all the earth.
Isaiah 10:23 KJV
For the
Lord GOD of
hosts shall make a consumption, even determined, in the midst of all the land.
But now thus
says the Lord,
he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have
redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. When you pass through
the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not
overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the
flame shall not consume you. For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One
of Israel, your Savior. I give Egypt as your ransom, Cush and Seba in exchange
for you. Because you are precious in my eyes, and honored, and I love you, I
give men in return for you, peoples in exchange for your life. Fear not, for I
am with you; I will bring your offspring from the east, and from the west I
will gather you.
Isaiah 58:13-14 ESV
“If you turn
back your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day, and
call the Sabbath a delight and the holy day of the Lord honorable;
if you honor it, not going your own ways, or seeking your own pleasure, or
talking idly; then you shall take delight in the Lord, and I will make you ride on
the heights of the earth; I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your
father, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”
These are
the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the
surviving elders of the exiles, and to the priests, the prophets, and all the
people, whom Nebuchadnezzar had taken into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.
This was after King Jeconiah and the queen mother, the eunuchs, the officials
of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the metal workers had departed from
Jerusalem. The letter was sent by the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan and
Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to Babylon to
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. It said: “Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of
Israel, to all the exiles whom I have sent into exile from Jerusalem to
Babylon: Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat their produce.
Jeremiah 29:11 ESV
For I know
the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not
for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Nehemiah 2:1-20 ESV (taken from)
In the month of Nisan,
in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was before him, I took up
the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad in his presence. And
the king said to me, “Why is your face sad, seeing you are not sick? This is nothing
but sadness of the heart.” Then I was very much afraid. I said to the king,
“Let the king live forever! Why should not my face be sad, when the city, the
place of my fathers' graves, lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed
by fire?” Then the king said to me, “What are you requesting?” So, I prayed to
the God of heaven. And I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your
servant has found favor in your sight, that you send me to Judah, to the city
of my fathers' graves, that I may rebuild it.”
Nehemiah 6:15-16 ESV
So, the wall was
finished on the twenty-fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty-two days. And when
all our enemies heard of it, all the nations around us were afraid and fell
greatly in their own esteem, for they perceived that this work had been
accomplished with the help of our God.
Nehemiah 6:15–16 KJV
15) So the wall was
finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in
fifty and two days.
16) And it came to
pass, that when all our enemies heard thereof, and all the heathen
that were about us saw these things, they were much cast
down in their own eyes: for they perceived that this work was wrought of our
God.
Proverbs 13:19 ESV
A desire fulfilled is
sweet to the soul, but to turn away from evil is an abomination to fools.
Proverbs 13:19 KJV
The desire accomplished
is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from
evil.
Psalm 28:1 ESV
Of David. To you,
O Lord,
I call; My rock, be not deaf to me, lest, if You be silent to me, I become like
those who go down to the pit.
Psalm 65:11 ESV
You crown the year with
Your bounty; Your wagon tracks overflow with abundance.
Psalm 119:60 ESV
I hasten and do not
delay to keep Your commandments.
Psalm 119:60 KJV
I made haste, and
delayed not to keep Thy commandments.
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