Now when every maid's turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the women, (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, to wit, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odours, and with other things for the purifying of the women;)
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
Matthew
GospelsNow a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse:
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.
Mark
Gospels / MarkThe length of one curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits was the breadth of one curtain: the eleven curtains were of one size.
Exodus
LawHow much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThere was a certain creditor which had two debtors: the one owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty.
Luke
Gospels / LukeMy beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of En-gedi.
Solomon's Song
PoetryAnd of the rest durst no man join himself to them: but the people magnified them.
Acts
HistoryBut the Spirit of the LORD came upon Gideon, and he blew a trumpet; and Abiezer was gathered after him.
Judges
History / SamuelShadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter.
Daniel
Major ProphetsMany of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
Acts
History / LukeAs righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth day of the first month.
Ezra
HistoryHe made also bases, and lavers made he upon the bases;
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThe chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThe watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?
Solomon's Song
PoetryNow if Timotheus come, see that he may be with you without fear: for he worketh the work of the Lord, as I also do.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAs an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsWhich indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
Matthew
Gospels(For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.)
John
GospelsAnd for the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations, and languages, trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew; and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he set up; and whom he would he put down.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.