Now therefore, if it seem good to the king, let there be search made in the king's treasure house, which is there at Babylon, whether it be so, that a decree was made of Cyrus the king to build this house of God at Jerusalem, and let the king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.
Deuteronomy
LawBecause thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThe letter which ye sent unto us hath been plainly read before me.
Ezra
HistorySo the posts that rode upon mules and camels went out, being hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment. And the decree was given at Shushan the palace.
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd he came to Ephesus, and left them there: but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.
Acts
HistoryAnd Josiah gave to the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all for the passover offerings, for all that were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bullocks: these were of the king's substance.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.
Psalms
PoetryAnd when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed him.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewIf I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
Job
WisdomWho hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean.
Leviticus
LawNeither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.
1 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulI have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is humility.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd he searched, and began at the eldest, and left at the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.
Genesis
LawHe was with David at Pas-dammim, and there the Philistines were gathered together to battle, where was a parcel of ground full of barley; and the people fled from before the Philistines.
1 Chronicles
HistoryHow shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the LORD hath not defied?
Numbers
LawAnd every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
1 Samuel
HistoryThe children of Ezer are these; Bilhan, and Zaavan, and Akan.
Genesis
LawWhosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
1 John
General EpistlesLet his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe three and twentieth to Delaiah, the four and twentieth to Maaziah.