And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsMy soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few;
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewBut every woman shall borrow of her neighbour, and of her that sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: and ye shall put them upon your sons, and upon your daughters; and ye shall spoil the Egyptians.
Exodus
LawA scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the same day Pilate and Herod were made friends together: for before they were at enmity between themselves.
Luke
GospelsWhich was with the deputy of the country, Sergius Paulus, a prudent man; who called for Barnabas and Saul, and desired to hear the word of God.
Acts
HistoryThou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThey that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
Jonah
Minor ProphetsMountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she said unto her son, Bring me yet a vessel. And he said unto her, There is not a vessel more. And the oil stayed.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThen shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThese are they which spake to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring out the children of Israel from Egypt: these are that Moses and Aaron.
Exodus
Law / MosesThen they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd 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
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanI indeed have baptized you with water: but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost.
Mark
Gospels / MarkWhich all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men?
Colossians
Pauline EpistlesAnd the garment, either warp, or woof, or whatsoever thing of skin it be, which thou shalt wash, if the plague be departed from them, then it shall be washed the second time, and shall be clean.
Leviticus
LawAnd they brought the young man alive, and were not a little comforted.