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 now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers:
Acts
HistoryLift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.
Psalms
PoetryThus ye also shall offer an heave offering unto the LORD of all your tithes, which ye receive of the children of Israel; and ye shall give thereof the LORD'S heave offering to Aaron the priest.
Numbers
LawHim hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.
Acts
HistoryI know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the young men arose, wound him up, and carried him out, and buried him.
Acts
History / LukeAnd when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us.
Acts
HistoryAnd Samuel said unto Saul, I will not return with thee: for thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD hath rejected thee from being king over Israel.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd when he was come in, he did eat and drink, and said, Go, see now this cursed woman, and bury her: for she is a king's daughter.
2 Kings
HistoryFor what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesWhen John had first preached before his coming the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.
Acts
HistoryAnd Saul built an altar unto the LORD: the same was the first altar that he built unto the LORD.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulTo whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:
Acts
HistoryAnd the priest shall burn them upon the altar for an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a trespass offering.
Leviticus
LawAnd he said unto his daughters, And where is he? why is it that ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd she said unto him, My lord, thou swarest by the LORD thy God unto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsBut Peter put them all forth, and kneeled down, and prayed; and turning him to the body said, Tabitha, arise. And she opened her eyes: and when she saw Peter, she sat up.
Acts
HistoryAnd they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth: and the men marvelled one at another.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.