Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, over an hundred and seven and twenty provinces:)
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
Proverbs
WisdomThou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd shall put thereon the covering of badgers' skins, and shall spread over it a cloth wholly of blue, and shall put in the staves thereof.
Numbers
Law / MosesHe shall break also the images of Beth-shemesh, that is in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians shall he burn with fire.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsI shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.
Leviticus
Law / MosesBut put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
Exodus
Law / MosesFor thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.
Psalms
PoetryWhy was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?
John
Gospels / JohnBlessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
James
General EpistlesAnd Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and see.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd when inquisition was made of the matter, it was found out; therefore they were both hanged on a tree: and it was written in the book of the chronicles before the king.
Esther
History / MordecaiEvery man of the children of Israel shall pitch by his own standard, with the ensign of their father's house: far off about the tabernacle of the congregation shall they pitch.
Numbers
Law / MosesWhen he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt:
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and sought not unto Baalim;
2 Chronicles
HistoryWhom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels:
Philemon
Pauline EpistlesWhich thou hast prepared before the face of all people;
Luke
GospelsAnd of the sons of Shephatiah; Zebadiah the son of Michael, and with him fourscore males.
Ezra
HistoryHe shall therefore burn that garment, whether warp or woof, in woollen or in linen, or any thing of skin, wherein the plague is: for it is a fretting leprosy; it shall be burnt in the fire.
Leviticus
LawAnd Aaron did so; he lighted the lamps thereof over against the candlestick, as the LORD commanded Moses.
Numbers
Law / MosesBut now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahNow as soon as this letter cometh to you, seeing your master's sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, a fenced city also, and armour;