Verse 9

Because of the house of the Lord our God, I will be working for your good.

Referenced Verses

  • Neh 2:10 : 10 And Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, hearing of it, were greatly troubled because a man had come to the help of the children of Israel.
  • Neh 13:14 : 14 Keep me in mind, O my God, in connection with this, and do not let the good which I have done for the house of my God and its worship go from your memory completely.
  • Esth 10:3 : 3 For Mordecai the Jew was second only to King Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews and respected by the body of his countrymen; working for the good of his people, and saying words of peace to all his seed.
  • Ps 26:8 : 8 Lord, your house has been dear to me, and the resting-place of your glory.
  • Ps 69:9 : 9 I am on fire with passion for your house; and the hard things which are said about you have come on me.
  • Ps 84:1-2 : 1 <To the chief music-maker; put to the Gittith A Psalm. Of the sons of Korah.> How dear are your tents, O Lord of armies! 2 The passion of my soul's desire is for the house of the Lord; my heart and my flesh are crying out for the living God.
  • Ps 84:10 : 10 For a day in your house is better than a thousand. It is better to be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than to be living in the tents of sin.
  • Ps 102:13-14 : 13 You will again get up and have mercy on Zion: for the time has come for her to be comforted. 14 For your servants take pleasure in her stones, looking with love on her dust.
  • 1 Chr 29:3 : 3 And because this house of God is dear to me, I give my private store of gold and silver to the house of my God, in addition to all I have got ready for the holy house;
  • John 2:17 : 17 And it came to the minds of the disciples that the Writings say, I am on fire with passion for your house.
  • Ps 137:5-6 : 5 If I keep not your memory, O Jerusalem, let not my right hand keep the memory of its art. 6 If I let you go out of my thoughts, and if I do not put Jerusalem before my greatest joy, let my tongue be fixed to the roof of my mouth.