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• Zechariah and Elizabeth

  [People]

  Zechariah and Elizabeth were a priestly couple in Luke 1 who remained childless into old age. As the angel Gabriel had foretold, they became the parents of John the Baptist.

• Isaiah 26:3

  [Bible Verses]

  A verse celebrating that God keeps "in perfect peace" the one who trusts in Him and whose mind is stayed on Him. It is frequently cited to comfort believers facing anxiety and worry.

• John 4:20–23

  [Bible Verses]

  In this passage Jesus tells a Samaritan woman that worship offered "in spirit and in truth" matters more than the place of worship. In Korean Protestant churches, it is one of the passages most frequently cited in discussions of the nature of worship.

• Captain of Thousands

  [Bible]

  A captain of thousands is the biblical term for a leader who governed or commanded a unit of one thousand. In the Old Testament it denotes a judicial and military office within Israel; in the New Testament it refers chiefly to a commander in the Roman army.

• Deuteronomy 12

  [Bible]

  Deuteronomy 12 is the first chapter of the Deuteronomic Code. It commands the destruction of Canaanite places of worship, requires that sacrifices and tithes be offered only at the one place God chooses, and prohibits eating blood.

• Christian Ethics

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Christian ethics is the field of theology that examines, in light of the Christian faith, what is right and how Christians ought to live as individuals and in society. It is also called the study of Christian ethics.

• Great Whore

  [Bible]

  The great whore is a symbolic figure in Revelation 17–19. She is depicted riding a scarlet beast, drunk with the blood of the saints, and committing fornication with the kings of the earth, and she is called "Babylon the Great."

• Isaiah 6

  [Bible]

  Isaiah 6 recounts Isaiah's call: in the year King Uzziah died, Isaiah sees the Lord seated on a throne in the temple, attended by seraphim. He is cleansed and then sent forth as a prophet.

• Jeremiah 50

  [Bible]

  Jeremiah 50 is a prophecy that Babylon, which overthrew Judah, will be destroyed by a nation from the north, and that the scattered people of Israel and Judah will return and receive pardon for their sins.

• Hosea 11

  [Bible]

  Hosea 11 portrays God's love through the image of a father who raised Israel as a young son. Though Israel turns away, God confesses a compassion that cannot finally abandon them: "How shall I give thee up?"

• Micah 3

  [Bible]

  Micah 3 indicts the leaders of the house of Jacob, the prophets who prophesy for money, and the priests who teach for hire, and it declares that because of them Zion and Jerusalem will be laid waste.

• Second Epistle of John

  [Bible]

  The Second Epistle of John is the twenty-fourth book of the New Testament, a brief letter of thirteen verses from an author who calls himself "the elder" to "the elect lady and her children." It sets forth the commandment to love one another and warns against false teachers.

• 1 John

  [Bible]

  First John is one of the General Epistles of the New Testament and consists of five chapters. With its declarations that "God is light" and "God is love," it sets out criteria for discerning genuine faith.

• Ecclesiastes 12:1

  [Bible Verses]

  An exhortation to remember one's Creator in the days of youth, before the evil days come. It is one of the final exhortations of Ecclesiastes and one of the verses most widely used as a motto for youth ministry.

• Matthew 7:7

  [Bible Verses]

  Matthew 7:7, "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you," is a promise concerning prayer. The verse is cherished as an encouragement to persistent prayer, though reading it as a promise that one will receive whatever one asks for has been debated.

• Matthew 25:40

  [Bible Verses]

  Matthew 25:40 is the verse in the parable of the sheep and the goats in which the King says, "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me." It is the passage most often cited as a basis for serving the poor, and interpreters differ over who "the least of these" are.

• Genesis 3:15

  [Bible Verses]

  Genesis 3:15 is God's declaration to the serpent that the seed of the woman "shall bruise thy head." The church has called this verse the Protoevangelium, the first announcement of Christ's victory, and interpreters differ over the identity of the seed.

• Genesis 3:16

  [Bible Verses]

  Genesis 3:16 records God's words to the woman after the Fall, in which He increases her pain in childbirth and declares that her husband "shall rule over thee." In discussions of the relationship between men and women, interpreters disagree over whether the verse establishes an order ordained by God or describes a distortion produced by sin.

• Samaritan Woman

  [People]

  The Samaritan woman is an unnamed woman in John 4 who spoke with Jesus at Jacob's well near the Samaritan town of Sychar and then told the people of her town about him.

• Joel 2:32

  [Bible 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.