And that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews, nor the memorial of them perish from their seed.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, which came forth of my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more now may this Benjamite do it? let him alone, and let him curse; for the LORD hath bidden him.
2 Samuel
HistoryYe shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:
Leviticus
Law / MosesBut these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said not unto you at the beginning, because I was with you.
John
GospelsWhoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonEgypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
Joel
Minor Prophets / JoelThen enquired he of them the hour when he began to amend. And they said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.
Matthew
GospelsBut the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites did help them, till the work was ended, and until the other priests had sanctified themselves: for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the priest shall look on him again the seventh day: and, behold, if the plague be somewhat dark, and the plague spread not in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean: it is but a scab: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.
Leviticus
LawAnd it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken unto me, saith the LORD, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but hallow the sabbath day, to do no work therein;
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahI will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith the LORD.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosSo Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college;) and they communed with her.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low;
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonBut the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
Revelation
ApocalypticHe opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places like a river.
Psalms
PoetryTherefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
John
GospelsBut if her husband hath utterly made them void on the day he heard them; then whatsoever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her husband hath made them void; and the LORD shall forgive her.
Numbers
Law / MosesA window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
Genesis
Law / MosesA good man obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.
Proverbs
WisdomWithal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds:
Colossians
Pauline EpistlesAnd it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also these two signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of the river, and pour it upon the dry land: and the water which thou takest out of the river shall become blood upon the dry land.