And it was so, when the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, that she obtained favour in his sight: and the king held out to Esther the golden sceptre that was in his hand. So Esther drew near, and touched the top of the sceptre.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Every thing devoted in Israel shall be thine.
Numbers
Law / MosesThou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThey said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come; for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.
Genesis
Law / MosesFor he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulEven the country which the LORD smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle:
Numbers
Law / MosesThe bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBe not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased;
Psalms
PoetryI will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBut ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.
Luke
Gospels / LukeIn the evening she went, and on the morrow she returned into the second house of the women, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king's chamberlain, which kept the concubines: she came in unto the king no more, except the king delighted in her, and that she were called by name.
Esther
History / MordecaiWherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownIs not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?
Deuteronomy
LawThus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, The LORD look upon it, and require it.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraFear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves;
Mark
GospelsCreate in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen sent Sanballat his servant unto me in like manner the fifth time with an open letter in his hand;
Nehemiah
HistoryArt thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
John
GospelsAnd the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, These are they whom the LORD hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahAnd the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season?
Luke
Gospels / LukeMy beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.
Solomon's Song
PoetryI have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.