But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king's commandment by his chamberlains: therefore was the king very wroth, and his anger burned in him.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.
Proverbs
WisdomSing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewNow Caiaphas was he, which gave counsel to the Jews, that it was expedient that one man should die for the people.
John
Gospels / JohnWhen he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
Proverbs
WisdomRemember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIn that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire;
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsYet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThe stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.
Deuteronomy
LawNotwithstanding no devoted thing, that a man shall devote unto the LORD of all that he hath, both of man and beast, and of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy unto the LORD.
Leviticus
LawSaying, What think ye of Christ? whose son is he? They say unto him, The Son of David.
Matthew
GospelsTo hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersUmmah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty and two cities with their villages.
Joshua
HistoryWhile as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?
Daniel
Major ProphetsTherefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThis wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me:
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd the women answered one another as they played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulSo Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
Joshua
HistoryHe sealeth up the hand of every man; that all men may know his work.