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Esther 1:13Then the king said to the wise men, who knew the times, (for it was the king’s custom to consult those who knew law and judgment;Esther 1:14and the next to him were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, who saw the king’s face, and sat first in the kingdom),Esther 1:15“What shall we do to the queen Vashti according to law, because she has not done the bidding of the King Ahasuerus by the eunuchs?”Esther 1:16Memucan answered before the king and the princes, “Vashti the queen has not done wrong to just the king, but also to all the princes, and to all the people who are in all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus.Esther 1:17For this deed of the queen will become known to all women, causing them to show contempt for their husbands, when it is reported, ‘King Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she didn’t come.’Esther 1:18Today, the princesses of Persia and Media who have heard of the queen’s deed will tell all the king’s princes. This will cause much contempt and wrath.Esther 1:19“If it please the king, let a royal commandment go from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, so that it cannot be altered, that Vashti may never again come before King Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate to another who is better than she.Esther 1:20When the king’s decree which he shall make is published throughout all his kingdom (for it is great), all the wives will give their husbands honor, both great and small.”Esther 1:21This advice pleased the king and the princes, and the king did according to the word of Memucan:Esther 1:22for he sent letters into all the king’s provinces, into every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language, that every man should rule his own house, speaking in the language of his own people.Job 1:5It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts.” Job did so continually.Psalm 101:2I will be careful to live a blameless life. When will you come to me? I will walk within my house with a blameless heart.Psalm 101:7He who practices deceit won’t dwell within my house. He who speaks falsehood won’t be established before my eyes.Psalm 128:3Your wife will be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of your house; your children like olive plants, around your table.Psalm 128:6Yes, may you see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel.Psalm 133:1A Song of Ascents. By David. See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!Proverbs 11:22Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout, is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.Proverbs 12:4A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.Proverbs 14:1Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.Proverbs 15:17Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, than a fattened calf with hatred.Proverbs 18:19A brother offended is more difficult than a fortified city; and disputes are like the bars of a castle.Proverbs 19:13A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife’s quarrels are a continual dripping.Proverbs 21:9It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than to share a house with a contentious woman.Proverbs 21:19It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.Proverbs 25:24It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than to share a house with a contentious woman.Proverbs 27:15A continual dropping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike:Proverbs 27:16restraining her is like restraining the wind, or like grasping oil in his right hand.Proverbs 30:21“For three things the earth tremble, and under four, it can’t bear up:Proverbs 30:23for an unloved woman when she is married; and a handmaid who is heir to her mistress.Proverbs 31:27She looks well to the ways of her household, and doesn’t eat the bread of idleness.Jeremiah 7:18The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.Jeremiah 10:25Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, and on the families that don’t call on your name: for they have devoured Jacob, yes, they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.Matthew 18:21Then Peter came and said to him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?”Matthew 18:22Jesus said to him, “I don’t tell you until seven times, but, until seventy times seven.John 11:1Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha.John 11:2It was that Mary who had anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother, Lazarus, was sick.John 11:3The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, “Lord, behold, he for whom you have great affection is sick.”John 11:4But when Jesus heard it, he said, “This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that God’s Son may be glorified by it.”John 11:5Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.Acts 10:1Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment,Acts 10:2a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God.Acts 10:3At about the ninth hour of the day, he clearly saw in a vision an angel of God coming to him, and saying to him, “Cornelius!”Acts 10:4He, fastening his eyes on him, and being frightened, said, “What is it, Lord?” He said to him, “Your prayers and your gifts to the needy have gone up for a memorial before God.Acts 10:5Now send men to Joppa, and get Simon, who is surnamed Peter.Acts 10:6He lodges with one Simon, a tanner, whose house is by the seaside.”Acts 10:33Therefore I sent to you at once, and it was good of you to come. Now therefore we are all here present in the sight of God to hear all things that have been commanded you by God.”Acts 10:44While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all those who heard the word.Acts 10:47“Can any man forbid the water, that these who have received the Holy Spirit as well as we should not be baptized?”Acts 10:48He commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay some days.Acts 16:15When she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and stay.” So she persuaded us.Acts 16:25But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.Acts 16:26Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone’s bonds were loosened.Acts 16:27The jailer, being roused out of sleep and seeing the prison doors open, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.Acts 16:28But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, “Don’t harm yourself, for we are all here!”Acts 16:29He called for lights and sprang in, and, fell down trembling before Paul and Silas,Acts 16:30and brought them out and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”Acts 16:31They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”Acts 16:32They spoke the word of the Lord to him, and to all who were in his house.Acts 16:33He took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes, and was immediately baptized, he and all his household.Acts 16:34He brought them up into his house, and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, with all his household, having believed in God.