And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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In those days, while Mordecai sat in the king's gate, two of the king's chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those which kept the door, were wroth, and sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus.
Esther
History / MordecaiThe LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
Psalms
PoetryAnd hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the LORD your God.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsYe have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?
Malachi
Minor ProphetsAnd the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.
2 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulHow much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownEvery male among the priests shall eat thereof: it shall be eaten in the holy place: it is most holy.
Leviticus
LawAnd David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he with fire:
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsHonour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:
Proverbs
WisdomKnowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
2 Peter
General Epistles / PeterMattaniah, Mattenai, and Jaasau,
Ezra
HistoryBut he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielA wise man scaleth the city of the mighty, and casteth down the strength of the confidence thereof.
Proverbs
WisdomSo Hushai David's friend came into the city, and Absalom came into Jerusalem.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd a very great multitude spread their garments in the way; others cut down branches from the trees, and strawed them in the way.
Matthew
GospelsAnd the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.
Revelation
ApocalypticTo be a memorial unto the children of Israel, that no stranger, which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer incense before the LORD; that he be not as Korah, and as his company: as the LORD said to him by the hand of Moses.
Numbers
LawAnd he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD, a ram without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a trespass offering, unto the priest:
Leviticus
Law / MosesThy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad.