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• Daniel

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  Daniel is a book of the Old Testament that contains stories of Daniel and his three friends, set during the Babylonian exile, along with visions concerning the end times.

• 2 Chronicles

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  Second Chronicles is the fourteenth of the thirty-nine books of the Protestant Old Testament. Centered on the temple and worship, it records events from the reign of Solomon to the fall of the kingdom of Judah and the decree of the Persian king Cyrus permitting the return from exile.

• 1 Samuel

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  First Samuel is one of the historical books of the Old Testament. It records the transition from the period of the judges to the establishment of the monarchy in Israel, centering on three figures: Samuel, Saul, and David.

• Ezekiel

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  Ezekiel is the twenty-sixth book of the Old Testament and one of the Major Prophets. Its forty-eight chapters record the visions and prophecies received by Ezekiel, a prophet from a priestly family who ministered during the Babylonian exile.

• 1 Timothy

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  1 Timothy is the fifteenth book of the New Testament. Traditionally regarded as a letter from the apostle Paul to his disciple Timothy in Ephesus concerning the care of the church, it is grouped with 2 Timothy and Titus as one of the Pastoral Epistles.

• Book of Job

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  A book of the Old Testament belonging to the wisdom literature. It tells the story of Job, a righteous man who suffers for reasons unknown to him, debates with his friends, and encounters God, and it addresses the question of why the righteous suffer.

• Haggai

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  Haggai is the thirty-seventh book of the Old Testament and the tenth of the twelve Minor Prophets. It contains the messages of the prophet Haggai, who urged the people of Judah, returned from exile in Babylon, to rebuild the ruined temple in Jerusalem.

• Leviticus

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  Leviticus is the third book of the Old Testament and the third book of the Pentateuch. It contains regulations concerning sacrifices, the priesthood, laws of purity, and holy living, and consists of 27 chapters.

• Lamentations

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  Lamentations is a book of the Old Testament that collects five laments, poems of grief mourning the destruction of Jerusalem and its temple by the Babylonians.

• 2 Thessalonians

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  Second Thessalonians is the fourteenth book of the New Testament. Traditionally regarded as Paul's second letter to the church at Thessalonica, it corrects the mistaken belief that the day of the Lord had already come and encourages believers suffering persecution.

• Zephaniah

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  Zephaniah is the ninth of the twelve Minor Prophets of the Old Testament. Delivered by the prophet Zephaniah during the reign of King Josiah of Judah, it warns of judgment on "the day of the LORD" and promises the restoration of a remnant. The book has three chapters.

• Third John

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  Third John is the twenty-fifth book of the New Testament. A brief personal letter from "the elder" to a believer named Gaius, it urges hospitality toward itinerant evangelists and rebukes the conduct of Diotrephes.

• Joel

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  Joel is the second book of the Minor Prophets in the Old Testament. Occasioned by a locust plague, it calls the people to repentance and contains God's promise to pour out His Spirit upon all flesh.

• Second Epistle of John

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  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 Chronicles

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  1 Chronicles is the thirteenth book of the Old Testament. Its 29 chapters record genealogies beginning with Adam and the reign of King David, with a focus on temple worship.

• Malachi

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  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

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  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

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  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.