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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When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge.
Proverbs
WisdomThe word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsSpeak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.
Leviticus
Law / MosesSo shall not the inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe: for every one of the children of Israel shall keep himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry;
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesWhen the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;
Job
Wisdom(There are eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadesh-barnea.)
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesFor my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThen will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersNow then, O LORD God of Israel, let thy word be verified, which thou hast spoken unto thy servant David.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd he brought up from thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son; and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.
John
Gospels / JohnGod is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet.
Psalms
PoetryAnd say unto him, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority to do these things?
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou art my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what shall thy wages be?
Genesis
Law / MosesWhen the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
Psalms
PoetryThe appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsPreserve my soul; for I am holy: O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee.
Psalms
PoetryThe law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity.
Malachi
Minor Prophets / MalachiAnd Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.
2 Samuel
HistoryAsaph the chief, and next to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obed-edom: and Jeiel with psalteries and with harps; but Asaph made a sound with cymbals;
1 Chronicles
HistoryThe black horses which are therein go forth into the north country; and the white go forth after them; and the grisled go forth toward the south country.