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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And Moses said unto them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over Jordan, every man armed to battle, before the LORD, and the land shall be subdued before you; then ye shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession:
Numbers
LawAnd he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.
Mark
GospelsAnd the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnThe children of Pahath-moab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand and eight hundred and eighteen.
Nehemiah
HistoryUnderstand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.
Deuteronomy
LawWherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd there came a fire out from before the LORD, and consumed upon the altar the burnt offering and the fat: which when all the people saw, they shouted, and fell on their faces.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThen again the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. He said unto them, He put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed, and do see.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd the sons of Neariah; Elioenai, and Hezekiah, and Azrikam, three.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewRemember Lot's wife.
Luke
GospelsAnd he made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue.
Exodus
LawMoreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielHitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
John
GospelsSo the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
Jonah
Minor ProphetsAnd the people asked him, saying, What shall we do then?
Luke
Gospels / LukeNeither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.
Deuteronomy
LawO that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!
Deuteronomy
LawNow therefore stand still, that I may reason with you before the LORD of all the righteous acts of the LORD, which he did to you and to your fathers.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelIf we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation.
John
GospelsThe LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
2 Samuel
HistoryHe is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee,