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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And the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down and worshipped God that sat on the throne, saying, Amen; Alleluia.
Revelation
ApocalypticBut Balaam answered and said unto Balak, Told not I thee, saying, All that the LORD speaketh, that I must do?
Numbers
Law / MosesWhen ye go, ye shall come unto a people secure, and to a large land: for God hath given it into your hands; a place where there is no want of any thing that is in the earth.
Judges
HistoryYea also, when he that is a fool walketh by the way, his wisdom faileth him, and he saith to every one that he is a fool.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomBut if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
James
General EpistlesThe eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
Proverbs
WisdomI write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father.
1 John
General Epistles / JohnConsider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the porch that was in the front of the house, the length of it was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height was an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd he said, To morrow. And he said, Be it according to thy word: that thou mayest know that there is none like unto the LORD our God.
Exodus
Law / MosesSearching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterDeliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
Psalms
PoetryAnd David said unto him, How wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand to destroy the LORD'S anointed?
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanBut there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
2 Peter
General EpistlesBe kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulShall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives?
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd of Joseph he said, Blessed of the LORD be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath,
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because they were exceeding many: neither was the weight of the brass found out.
1 Kings
HistoryFor the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there:
John
Gospels / JohnSpeak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God.
Leviticus
Law / MosesIf thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.
Job
WisdomAnd, behold, there are last which shall be first, and there are first which shall be last.