And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd when they had set them in the midst, they asked, By what power, or by what name, have ye done this?
Acts
History / LukeAnd there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.
John
Gospels / JohnThe fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.
Exodus
LawWe are all one man's sons; we are true men, thy servants are no spies.
Genesis
LawHe that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
John
GospelsBut we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;
1 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulThou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersKnow now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
Job
WisdomAnd when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThat your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesO worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth.
Psalms
PoetryEven so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
James
General Epistles / JamesI commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea:
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulThe slothful hideth his hand in his bosom; it grieveth him to bring it again to his mouth.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonTherefore thus saith the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThen fell she down straightway at his feet, and yielded up the ghost: and the young men came in, and found her dead, and, carrying her forth, buried her by her husband.
Acts
HistoryAnd they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd when he had given him licence, Paul stood on the stairs, and beckoned with the hand unto the people. And when there was made a great silence, he spake unto them in the Hebrew tongue, saying,
Acts
History / LukeIn the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, twenty and four years.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahI indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:
Matthew
GospelsBut the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.