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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Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment:
Matthew
GospelsAnd many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.
John
Gospels / JohnThou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold, here am I.
Genesis
Law / MosesFor I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:
Philippians
Pauline EpistlesAnd he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
Psalms
PoetryAnd in the cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of wood, to make any manner of cunning work.
Exodus
LawFor it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThe slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFor whereas my father put a heavy yoke upon you, I will put more to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
2 Chronicles
HistoryLet them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.
Proverbs
WisdomNot to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before of God, even to us, who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead.
Acts
HistoryHe increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd I will scatter toward every wind all that are about him to help him, and all his bands; and I will draw out the sword after them.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow at that which is before her; and ye shall cast them into the palace, saith the LORD.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosTherefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be said, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThen rose up the chief of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, with all them whose spirit God had raised, to go up to build the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellowlabourers, whose names are in the book of life.
Philippians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThe hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.