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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Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion.
Psalms
PoetryAnd all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd they have gathered together the money that was found in the house of the LORD, and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers, and to the hand of the workmen.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraSo Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, went down, and caused Solomon to ride upon king David's mule, and brought him to Gihon.
1 Kings
HistoryThey have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The LORD saith: and the LORD hath not sent them: and they have made others to hope that they would confirm the word.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAll the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersTherefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulThe words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThey say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard; and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them: Sprinkle water of purifying upon them, and let them shave all their flesh, and let them wash their clothes, and so make themselves clean.
Numbers
LawBut the people held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd he made loops of blue on the edge of one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling: likewise he made in the uttermost side of another curtain, in the coupling of the second.
Exodus
LawAnd purify all your raiment, and all that is made of skins, and all work of goats' hair, and all things made of wood.
Numbers
LawThou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBut thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress.
Obadiah
Minor ProphetsAnd if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBut thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBut he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given.
Matthew
GospelsThou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersI was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
Proverbs
WisdomThen 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 thou shalt bring his sons, and put coats upon them.
Exodus
Law / MosesWho can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?