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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In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I reserve.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahSo he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBetter is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonBrethren, pray for us.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesNow therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably unto thy servants: for I swear by the LORD, if thou go not forth, there will not tarry one with thee this night: and that will be worse unto thee than all the evil that befell thee from thy youth until now.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanIn weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Beth-lehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the LORD.
2 Samuel
HistoryBy which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterHe hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAbram; the same is Abraham.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThese things command and teach.
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesBut Paul said, I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city: and, I beseech thee, suffer me to speak unto the people.
Acts
History / LukeThe gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.
Job
WisdomWho forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThey are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesBut as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
Genesis
LawTheir 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
Law / MosesAnd Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraFor the length of the chambers that were in the utter court was fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple were an hundred cubits.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsMoreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersNamely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baal-hermon unto the entering in of Hamath.