And that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews, nor the memorial of them perish from their seed.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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These were heads of the fathers, by their generations, chief men. These dwelt in Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he was with them hid in the house of God six years: and Athaliah reigned over the land.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThen spake Jeremiah unto all the princes and to all the people, saying, The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that ye have heard.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahHe made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them captives.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.
John
GospelsThus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon them that have daubed it with untempered morter, and will say unto you, The wall is no more, neither they that daubed it;
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBrethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
Mark
GospelsThen God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?
Acts
History / LukeIf thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take other wives beside my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness betwixt me and thee.
Genesis
LawThey conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the wall that was without over against the chambers, toward the utter court on the forepart of the chambers, the length thereof was fifty cubits.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.
Nehemiah
HistoryFor, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahWho is like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd they were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd this shall be a sign unto you, saith the LORD, that I will punish you in this place, that ye may know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil:
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren's heart faint as well as his heart.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd Abimelech came unto the tower, and fought against it, and went hard unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire.
Judges
History / SamuelThe mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him.
Mark
GospelsThe wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.