As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersNow therefore, I pray thee, pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD.
1 Samuel
HistoryBut the bullock, and his hide, his flesh, and his dung, he burnt with fire without the camp; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThey are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsNor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King.
Matthew
GospelsAnd I gave the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel mine uncle's son, and in the presence of the witnesses that subscribed the book of the purchase, before all the Jews that sat in the court of the prison.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the LORD, to deliver thee.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsFor the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThey set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
Psalms
PoetryAnd thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesWherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownSo the messenger went, and came and shewed David all that Joab had sent him for.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd her husband heard it, and held his peace at her, and disallowed her not: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.
Numbers
Law / MosesIf a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work.
2 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulHave any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him?
John
Gospels / JohnNeither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.
Exodus
LawMoreover the candlesticks with their lamps, that they should burn after the manner before the oracle, of pure gold;
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.
Genesis
LawThat they may believe that the LORD God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee.
Exodus
LawI cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen Judah came near unto him, and said, Oh my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant: for thou art even as Pharaoh.
Genesis
Law / MosesThy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsSon of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother: