Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Then I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon me; as also the king's words that he had spoken unto me. And they said, Let us rise up and build. So they strengthened their hands for this good work.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahLet the field be joyful, and all that is therein: then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Moses and Aaron did as the LORD commanded them, so did they.
Exodus
LawAnd saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now.
John
GospelsAnd it came to pass in Iconium, that they went both together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spake, that a great multitude both of the Jews and also of the Greeks believed.
Acts
History / LukeAnd they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants.
Genesis
Law / MosesJesus answered and said unto him, What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter.
John
GospelsAnd when we cried unto the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression:
Deuteronomy
LawSurely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
Isaiah
Major ProphetsWho can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
Job
WisdomAnd they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them.
Judges
HistoryAnd the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielI will hiss for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed them: and they shall increase as they have increased.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsSpeak unto the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to do a trespass against the LORD, and that person be guilty;
Numbers
Law / MosesIf those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
Genesis
Law / MosesBeloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
1 John
General EpistlesThen did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAn high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin.
Proverbs
WisdomWho knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the LORD hath sent unto you all his servants the prophets, rising early and sending them; but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBut I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.