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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Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.
Exodus
Law / MosesFor oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomBecause ye have thrust with side and with shoulder, and pushed all the diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad;
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBut if thou return to the city, and say unto Absalom, I will be thy servant, O king; as I have been thy father's servant hitherto, so will I now also be thy servant: then mayest thou for me defeat the counsel of Ahithophel.
2 Samuel
HistoryThis is again the second miracle that Jesus did, when he was come out of Judaea into Galilee.
John
Gospels / JohnBut against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that the LORD doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the children.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd they held their peace. And he took him, and healed him, and let him go;
Luke
GospelsPilate therefore, willing to release Jesus, spake again to them.
Luke
GospelsIf we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
Psalms
PoetryHe that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.
John
GospelsHear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahIf thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
Exodus
Law / MosesAdam, Sheth, Enosh,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd Jacob said unto them, My brethren, whence be ye? And they said, Of Haran are we.
Genesis
LawThat thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.
Matthew
GospelsJudah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd he went on his journeys from the south even to Beth-el, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Beth-el and Hai;
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd there was also a strife among them, which of them should be accounted the greatest.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThe bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd thou shalt set the altar of the burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.
Exodus
LawAs they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I gather you in mine anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there, and melt you.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd they went about in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of all the cities of Judah, and the chief of the fathers of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.