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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Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
Deuteronomy
LawAfterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.
Mark
GospelsAnd thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy.
Exodus
LawAnd a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewMoreover from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession of the city, being in the midst of that which is the prince's, between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin, shall be for the prince.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house, of which the LORD said to David, and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:
2 Kings
History / JeremiahOh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;
Job
WisdomOf old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd whatsoever goeth upon his paws, among all manner of beasts that go on all four, those are unclean unto you: whoso toucheth their carcase shall be unclean until the even.
Leviticus
Law / MosesEven as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewFor whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahSaying, Go ye into the village over against you; in the which at your entering ye shall find a colt tied, whereon yet never man sat: loose him, and bring him hither.
Luke
Gospels / LukeWhile he yet spake, there came from the ruler of the synagogue's house certain which said, Thy daughter is dead: why troublest thou the Master any further?
Mark
GospelsAnd I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnSo they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and Absalom went in unto his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.
2 Samuel
HistoryNor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownAnd he informed me, and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to give thee skill and understanding.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd the staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam; and his spear's head weighed six hundred shekels of iron: and one bearing a shield went before him.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelWilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off? and wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our hosts?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Job
WisdomAnd it came to pass from that time forth, that the half of my servants wrought in the work, and the other half of them held both the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the habergeons; and the rulers were behind all the house of Judah.