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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He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him: he hath broken his covenant.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd straightway he constrained his disciples to get into the ship, and to go to the other side before unto Bethsaida, while he sent away the people.
Mark
GospelsI was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
Psalms
PoetryAnd ye shall point out your east border from Hazar-enan to Shepham:
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which were come against Judah; and they were smitten.
2 Chronicles
HistoryMy soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.
Psalms
PoetryAs concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThe fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him.
Mark
GospelsAnd call ye on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of the LORD: and the God that answereth by fire, let him be God. And all the people answered and said, It is well spoken.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahCursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Deuteronomy
LawBefore the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:
Proverbs
WisdomArt not thou that Egyptian, which before these days madest an uproar, and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers?
Acts
HistoryAnd the sound of the cherubims' wings was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of the Almighty God when he speaketh.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielDid not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?
Job
WisdomBetter is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
Genesis
Law / MosesMoreover Solomon hallowed the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the brasen altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt offerings, and the meat offerings, and the fat.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThen came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why have ye not brought him?
John
GospelsAnd the lot of the children of Joseph fell from Jordan by Jericho, unto the water of Jericho on the east, to the wilderness that goeth up from Jericho throughout mount Beth-el,
Joshua
HistorySo he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman was there gathering of sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.
1 Kings
HistoryEdom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahDo we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.