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 Jesus went with him; and much people followed him, and thronged him.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesHow long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahJesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?
John
Gospels / JohnAnd there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.
Leviticus
LawAnd God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Genesis
Law / MosesMoreover the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians, that were near the Ethiopians:
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
Genesis
LawAnd Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me.
Exodus
LawReturn, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;
Psalms
PoetryAnd their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:
Numbers
LawAgain the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying,
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsYe stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
Acts
HistoryAnd they gave them Hebron in the land of Judah, and the suburbs thereof round about it.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThe light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
Proverbs
WisdomThey go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.
Genesis
Law / MosesBetter is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonNotwithstanding the king's word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the host. And Joab and the captains of the host went out from the presence of the king, to number the people of Israel.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd he said unto them, Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto one of another nation; but God hath shewed me that I should not call any man common or unclean.
Acts
History / LukeAnd if a man eat of the holy thing unwittingly, then he shall put the fifth part thereof unto it, and shall give it unto the priest with the holy thing.
Leviticus
LawAnd he straitly charged them, and commanded them to tell no man that thing;
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd the king said unto Esther at the banquet of wine, What is thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: and what is thy request? even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.