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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The king's favour is toward a wise servant: but his wrath is against him that causeth shame.
Proverbs
WisdomLet us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAlso I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosAnd Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.
Genesis
LawAnd I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me.
2 Kings
HistoryZebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon.
Genesis
LawFor your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd David and all the house of Israel played before the LORD on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThou broughtest us into the net; thou laidst affliction upon our loins.
Psalms
PoetryAnd they departed from Oboth, and pitched in Ije-abarim, in the border of Moab.
Numbers
LawAnd Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of the LORD, and have gone the way which the LORD sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering, and put it upon the posts of the house, and upon the four corners of the settle of the altar, and upon the posts of the gate of the inner court.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsHis prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they are written among the sayings of the seers.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraWalk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.
Psalms
PoetryFor they that have used the office of a deacon well purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
1 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulThe chambers were in the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, over against the separate place, and over against the building.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.
Genesis
LawSufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulTheir sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersLay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men's sins: keep thyself pure.
1 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters: and these are the names of his daughters, Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.