As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine:
Titus
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd he made boards for the tabernacle; twenty boards for the south side southward:
Exodus
Law / MosesThe LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThe LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.
Psalms
PoetryNow therefore let not my lord the king take the thing to his heart, to think that all the king's sons are dead: for Amnon only is dead.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanWhich alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd when Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of corn: and she came softly, and uncovered his feet, and laid her down.
Ruth
HistoryAbove it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsSo Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThen went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about Jordan,
Matthew
GospelsAnd those that were numbered of them by their families were two thousand seven hundred and fifty.
Numbers
Law / MosesBut Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the LORD, that we may enquire of the LORD by him? And one of the king of Israel's servants answered and said, Here is Elisha the son of Shaphat, which poured water on the hands of Elijah.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThe children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahTherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name;
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielI had many things to write, but I will not with ink and pen write unto thee:
3 John
General EpistlesLet us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
Psalms
PoetryAnd wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold.
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd the king said to Absalom, Nay, my son, let us not all now go, lest we be chargeable unto thee. And he pressed him: howbeit he would not go, but blessed him.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Genesis
LawNow therefore in the sight of all Israel the congregation of the LORD, and in the audience of our God, keep and seek for all the commandments of the LORD your God: that ye may possess this good land, and leave it for an inheritance for your children after you for ever.
1 Chronicles
HistoryHe that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Amasa wallowed in blood in the midst of the highway. And when the man saw that all the people stood still, he removed Amasa out of the highway into the field, and cast a cloth upon him, when he saw that every one that came by him stood still.
2 Samuel
HistoryFor I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.