Esther 4:5

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor’s good.

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them, and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.

You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and no sin is in him.

Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.

Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?

In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.

The high priest can deal gently with those who are ignorant and going astray, because he himself is also surrounded with weakness.

However, if you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.

who didn’t sin, “neither was deceit found in his mouth.”

“You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an alien, since you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

Didn’t I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn’t my soul grieved for the needy?

a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

They made his grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.

When their hearts were merry, they said, “Call for Samson, that he may entertain us.” They called for Samson out of the prison; and he performed before them. They set him between the pillars;

When Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain. She came softly, uncovered his feet, and laid down.

The king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and went into the palace garden. Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.

Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs who were with the king said, “Behold, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman has made for Mordecai, who spoke good for the king, is standing at Haman’s house.” The king said, “Hang him on it!”

The king’s wrath is like the roaring of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.

As one who takes away a garment in cold weather, or vinegar on soda, so is one who sings songs to a heavy heart.

“How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within me, my compassion is aroused.

He won’t break a bruised reed. He won’t quench a smoking flax, until he leads justice to victory.

Jesus went out, and he saw a great multitude. He had compassion on them, and healed their sick.

But you are those who have continued with me in my trials.

I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me.

For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.

Having then a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let’s hold tightly to our confession.

So they sat down, ate, and drank, both of them together. Then the young lady’s father said to the man, “Please be pleased to stay all night, and let your heart be merry.”

Absalom commanded his servants, saying, “Mark now, when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine; and when I tell you, ‘Strike Amnon,’ then kill him. Don’t be afraid. Haven’t I commanded you? Be courageous, and be valiant!”

Let those who favor my righteous cause shout for joy and be glad. Yes, let them say continually, “May Yahweh be magnified, who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant!”

Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.

Wine is a mocker and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if a huge millstone were hung around his neck, and that he were sunk in the depths of the sea.

Again, a second time he went away, and prayed, saying, “My Father, if this cup can’t pass away from me unless I drink it, your desire be done.”

He was there in the wilderness forty days tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals; and the angels were serving him.

He himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion, and they woke him up, and told him, “Teacher, don’t you care that we are dying?”

The angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the holy one who is born from you will be called the Son of God.

Her neighbors and her relatives heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy toward her, and they rejoiced with her.

for forty days, being tempted by the devil. He ate nothing in those days. Afterward, when they were completed, he was hungry.

When the devil had completed every temptation, he departed from him until another time.

When the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said to her, “Don’t cry.”

When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had been sick for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to be made well?”

All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out.

Jesus wept.

Whatever you will ask in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. When one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

since he longed for you all, and was very troubled because you had heard that he was sick.

Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,

For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.

When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate. Then she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too.

To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. You will bear children in pain. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

Sarah said, “God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me.”

He sent portions to them from before him, but Benjamin’s portion was five times as much as any of theirs. They drank, and were merry with him.

As soon as he came near to the camp, he saw the calf and the dancing. Then Moses’ anger grew hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands, and broke them beneath the mountain.

Yahweh will not pardon him, but then Yahweh’s anger and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book will fall on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under the sky.

He said to him, “Why, son of the king, are you so sad from day to day? Won’t you tell me?” Amnon said to him, “I love Tamar, my brother Absalom’s sister.”

As if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshiped him.

for when Jezebel cut off Yahweh’s prophets, Obadiah took one hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)

Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I don’t make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time!”

But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said to him, “Why is your spirit so sad, that you eat no bread?”

But there was no one like Ahab, who sold himself to do that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.

The king said to me, “Why is your face sad, since you are not sick? This is nothing else but sorrow of heart.” Then I was very much afraid.

On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcass, the seven eunuchs who served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,

But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s commandment by the eunuchs. Therefore the king was very angry, and his anger burned in him.

I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul’s place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,

“Have pity on me. Have pity on me, you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me.

Then came there to him all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled him concerning all the evil that Yahweh had brought on him. Everyone also gave him a piece of money, and everyone a ring of gold.

How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?

The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion. He who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life.

A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes the life glad; and money is the answer for all things.

Because of this, the king was angry and very furious, and commanded that all the wise men of Babylon be destroyed.

Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken apart by him.

Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.

We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed,

Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don’t burn with indignation?

But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word,

Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.