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• Malachi

  [Bible]

  Malachi is the last of the thirty-nine books of the Protestant Old Testament and one of the twelve Minor Prophets, a group of shorter prophetic books. It rebukes the formalism of Israel's worship and conduct after the rebuilding of the Temple.

• 2 Corinthians

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  Second Corinthians is the eighth book of the New Testament and the second letter Paul sent to the church at Corinth. It addresses Paul's defense of his apostleship, comfort in suffering, and the collection to aid the church in Jerusalem. Its verse 13:13 (13:14 in many English Bibles) is used as the benediction in worship.

• Amos

  [Bible]

  Amos is the third of the twelve books of the Minor Prophets in the Old Testament. It preserves the words of the prophet Amos, who was active in the northern kingdom of Israel in the eighth century BC, and it is well known for its call to social justice and its critique of merely formal worship.

• First Epistle to the Corinthians

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  First Corinthians is the seventh book of the New Testament, a letter from the apostle Paul to the church in the Greek port city of Corinth. It addresses divisions within the church, ethics, worship and the Lord's Supper, the gifts of the Holy Spirit, and the resurrection.

• Epistle to the Hebrews

  [Bible]

  Hebrews is the nineteenth book of the New Testament. It presents Jesus Christ as the true High Priest who fulfilled the sacrifices and priesthood of the Old Testament, and it exhorts its readers to hold fast to the faith.

• 2 Samuel

  [Bible]

  Second Samuel is a historical book of the Old Testament that records the period after Saul's death, when David became king over Judah and then over all Israel. It has twenty-four chapters.

• Peter

  [People]

  Peter, originally named Simon, was one of the twelve disciples of Jesus Christ. A fisherman from Galilee, he became a leader of the early church in Jerusalem, and the New Testament books of 1 Peter and 2 Peter bear his name.

• Jeremiah

  [Bible]

  Jeremiah is one of the Major Prophets of the Old Testament. It records the prophecies and life of the prophet Jeremiah, who ministered during the period when the Kingdom of Judah fell.

• Mary

  [People]

  Mary is the woman presented in the New Testament as the mother of Jesus Christ. Protestants and Catholics both confess the virgin birth, but they differ in their understanding of Mary's status and of the veneration due to her.

• Gospel of Matthew

  [Bible]

  The Gospel of Matthew is the first book of the New Testament and one of the four Gospels, recording the life of Jesus Christ from His birth to His resurrection. It places particular emphasis on the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy and on the teachings of Jesus.

• Epistle to Philemon

  [Bible]

  The Epistle to Philemon is the eighteenth book of the New Testament. In this short letter of one chapter and twenty-five verses, the apostle Paul, writing from prison, asks Philemon to receive his slave Onesimus as a brother.

• Philippians

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  Philippians is the eleventh book of the New Testament, a letter the apostle Paul wrote while imprisoned to the church at Philippi in Macedonia. It has four chapters, and because its exhortation to "rejoice" recurs throughout, it is also called the "Epistle of Joy."

• Hosea

  [Bible]

  Hosea is a prophetic book of the Old Testament in which Hosea, an eighth-century BC prophet of the northern kingdom of Israel, uses his own marriage to portray idolatrous Israel and the love of God, who will not finally abandon His people.

• Epistle to Titus

  [Bible]

  The Epistle to Titus is a book of the New Testament, a letter in which the apostle Paul instructs his coworker Titus, whom he had left on the island of Crete, to appoint church leaders and to uphold sound teaching and right living. Together with 1 Timothy and 2 Timothy, it is known as one of the "Pastoral Epistles."

• Providence

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Providence is the Christian doctrine that God preserves and governs the world he created and guides it according to his will. Many Protestant denominations confess it in common, though traditions differ in explaining how it relates to human freedom.

• David

  [People]

  David was the second king of ancient Israel according to the Old Testament. He ruled the kingdom from Jerusalem, which he made his capital. Many of the Psalms are attributed to him, and the New Testament calls Jesus Christ "the son of David."

• Creation

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Creation is the Christian teaching that God made the world and everything in it out of nothing. It is a foundation of the faith confessed at the opening of the Apostles' Creed.

• Ecclesiastes

  [Bible]

  Ecclesiastes is a book of Old Testament wisdom literature. It reflects on the transience, or "vanity," of all things in the world and concludes that fearing God is the whole duty of man.

• Nahum

  [Bible]

  Nahum is the seventh of the twelve Minor Prophets of the Old Testament. It proclaims the coming destruction of Nineveh, the capital of the Assyrian Empire, and consists of three chapters.

• Colossians

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  Colossians is the twelfth book of the New Testament. It is a letter from the apostle Paul to the church at Colossae in Asia Minor, emphasizing that Christ is preeminent over all things and sufficient for salvation.