To confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahFor ye are our glory and joy.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulHe that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.
Revelation
ApocalypticHe esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.
Job
WisdomThen will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsMoreover I said unto the king, If it please the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the river, that they may convey me over till I come into Judah;
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?
James
General EpistlesThe city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBut in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnHe layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
Proverbs
WisdomHe stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the LORD hath given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy the strong holds thereof.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd at Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon; whose wife's name was Maachah:
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.
Matthew
GospelsThus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for their good.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and my judgments:
1 Kings
HistoryThe sons of Manasseh; Ashriel, whom she bare: (but his concubine the Aramitess bare Machir the father of Gilead:
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse,
Mark
GospelsAnd at En-rimmon, and at Zareah, and at Jarmuth,
Nehemiah
HistoryIf I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
Job
Wisdom / JobThey ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsThe fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonMy lips shall utter praise, when thou hast taught me thy statutes.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSurely at the commandment of the LORD came this upon Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did;