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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The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThe word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah into Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. And this Seraiah was a quiet prince.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahFrom thence they removed, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, which is in the wilderness that cometh out of the coasts of the Amorites: for Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.
Luke
Gospels / LukeFor thus saith the LORD touching Shallum the son of Josiah king of Judah, which reigned instead of Josiah his father, which went forth out of this place; He shall not return thither any more:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahI am thine, save me; for I have sought thy precepts.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersOr what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
Mark
GospelsAccording to the word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt, so my spirit remaineth among you: fear ye not.
Haggai
Minor Prophets / HaggaiAnd the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
Exodus
LawIn that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownBut if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;
2 Chronicles
History / EzraFor if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
James
General EpistlesThen came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man's house where her lord was, till it was light.
Judges
HistoryAnd Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD: this is holy for the priest, with the wave breast and heave shoulder: and after that the Nazarite may drink wine.
Numbers
LawThe singers: the children of Asaph, an hundred forty and eight.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd after that I looked, and, behold, the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened:
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.
Acts
History / LukeThey say still unto them that despise me, The LORD hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsFor thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;
Matthew
GospelsBut Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons which were slain; and they hid him, even him and his nurse, in the bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was not slain.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the scribes which came down from Jerusalem said, He hath Beelzebub, and by the prince of the devils casteth he out devils.