To confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.
John
GospelsO bless our God, ye people, and make the voice of his praise to be heard:
Psalms
PoetryAnd Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines.
Judges
History / SamuelThat which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land.
Leviticus
Law / MosesNevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd he said unto them, Follow after me: for the LORD hath delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. And they went down after him, and took the fords of Jordan toward Moab, and suffered not a man to pass over.
Judges
History / SamuelMen, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence which I make now unto you.
Acts
HistoryEven of the children of Israel's half, Moses took one portion of fifty, both of man and of beast, and gave them unto the Levites, which kept the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Numbers
LawThou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesNone calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBut the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? are not his servants come unto thee for to search, and to overthrow, and to spy out the land?
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThree bowls made after the fashion of almonds in one branch, a knop and a flower; and three bowls made like almonds in another branch, a knop and a flower: so throughout the six branches going out of the candlestick.
Exodus
LawFor it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesAnd if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come.
Matthew
GospelsThat made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThey sent a letter unto him, wherein was written thus; Unto Darius the king, all peace.
Ezra
History / EzraI have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant.
Zephaniah
Minor Prophets / ZephaniahBe not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahWhile the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
Matthew
GospelsAnd the coast of the children of Dan went out too little for them: therefore the children of Dan went up to fight against Leshem, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and dwelt therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their father.
Joshua
History / JoshuaOf which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:
1 Peter
General EpistlesJehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.