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• King James OnlyismDoctrine & Theology

  King James Onlyism is the position that the only correct Bible is the King James Bible, produced in England in 1611, or a translation that follows its underlying text, the Textus Receptus.

• Shammai (son of Onam)People

  Shammai was a member of the Jerahmeelite clan of the tribe of Judah, the son of Onam and the father of Nadab and Abishur. His name appears only in the genealogy of 1 Chronicles 2.

• AroerBible

  Aroer is a place name in the Old Testament. Several towns bore this name; the one mentioned most often lay on the edge of the Arnon Valley east of the Jordan River and is cited as a boundary between Israel and Moab.

• BenjaminPeople

  Benjamin was the second son of Jacob and Rachel and the youngest of Jacob's twelve sons. He was the ancestor of the tribe of Benjamin, one of the twelve tribes of Israel.

• CleopasPeople

  Cleopas is the named one of the two disciples who met the risen Jesus on the road to Emmaus in Luke 24. Scripture contains no other record of his life.

• MediatorDoctrine & Theology

  A mediator is one who stands between two estranged parties and restores the relationship between them. Protestants confess Jesus Christ as the one Mediator between God and humanity.

• Titulus CrucisBible

  The titulus crucis was the placard stating the charge against Jesus Christ, fastened above him on the cross at his crucifixion. All four Gospels record that it bore the words "the King of the Jews."

• Jephthah's DaughterPeople

  Jephthah's daughter was the only child of the judge Jephthah, whose story appears in Judges 11. She was given up because of a vow her father made before going to war. Scripture does not record her name.

• Assurance of SalvationControversies

  A discussion of whether a person who has once been saved can lose salvation, and of the grounds on which a person may be assured of being saved.

• 1 Timothy 3:2Bible Verses

  This verse lists "the husband of one wife" among the qualifications of a bishop (church leader). Interpreters disagree over whether the phrase prohibits polygamy, prohibits remarriage, or means that only married men may serve. The question also bears on divorced officeholders and on women in church office.

• Hebrews 6:4–6Bible Verses

  A warning that those who were once enlightened and made partakers of the Holy Ghost cannot be renewed again unto repentance if they fall away. It is a key text in the debate between Calvinism and Arminianism over whether a true believer can lose salvation.

• 2 Peter 3:8–9Bible Verses

  A passage declaring that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day, and that the Lord is not slack concerning His promise because He is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. It answers the problem of the delay of the Second Coming and has also been drawn into debates over the length of the creation days and attempts to calculate the end times.

• Matthew 5:17–18Bible Verses

  In this saying Jesus declares that he came not to destroy the law or the prophets but to fulfill them. The passage is a starting point from which different denominations reach different conclusions about the relationship between Christians and the Old Testament law.

• Joel 2:32Bible Verses

  Joel 2:32 promises that on the day of the LORD "whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered." Quoted in Peter's Pentecost sermon (Acts 2:21) and in Romans 10:13, it is frequently cited as a text on the universal offer of salvation and on the lordship of Jesus.

• 1 Timothy 2:5–6Bible Verses

  A passage stating that there is only one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself a ransom for all. It is frequently cited in discussions of Christ's unique mediation and the extent of the atonement.

• Luke 6:27–36Bible Verses

  In this passage from the Sermon on the Plain, Jesus teaches his hearers to love their enemies, to do good to those who hate them, and to be merciful as God the Father is merciful. It is a principal text on love of enemies and on the "Golden Rule." How literally its teaching on nonviolence and nonresistance should be followed has long been debated.

• Matthew 7:22–27Bible Verses

  The closing section of the Sermon on the Mount, which compares those who hear and do the words of Jesus to a house built upon a rock, and those who only hear them to a house built upon the sand. It is frequently cited in discussions of the relationship between faith and works and between spiritual gifts and salvation.

• Luke 23:43Bible Verses

  Luke 23:43 records the promise Jesus made on the cross to the repentant thief: "To day shalt thou be with me in paradise." The verse is frequently cited in discussions of where believers are immediately after death (the intermediate state) and of whether salvation is possible apart from works or baptism. It is also the subject of a translation debate over the placement of a comma.

• Acts 16:31Bible Verses

  Acts 16:31 records the answer of Paul and Silas to the jailer of the prison at Philippi: "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house." The verse is widely cherished as a text of hope for the salvation of one's family. It raises two questions: whether "thy house" is a promise to the whole family, and whether household baptisms support infant baptism.

• Romans 5:12Bible Verses

  Romans 5:12 states that sin entered the world through one man, Adam, and death through sin, so that death passed upon all people. It is the principal scriptural basis for the Western church's doctrine of original sin, and the Eastern, Western, and various Protestant traditions differ on how Adam's sin is passed on to his descendants.