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• Ezekiel 23

  Ezekiel 23 is a prophetic parable that likens Samaria, the capital of the northern kingdom of Israel, and Jerusalem, the capital of Judah, to two sisters, Oholah and Oholibah, who played the harlot. Through this image it indicts their alliances with foreign nations and their idolatry, and it pronounces judgment upon them.

• Ezekiel 33

  Ezekiel 33 is the chapter in which news of the fall of Jerusalem arrives. God again appoints Ezekiel as a watchman for Israel and, declaring that He takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked, urges the people to turn back.

• Acts 17

  Acts 17 recounts how Paul, during his second missionary journey, preaches the gospel in Thessalonica and Berea and meets opposition, and then, at the Areopagus in Athens, uses the altar "to the unknown God" as a starting point to proclaim the Creator and the resurrection.

• Hebrews 10

  Hebrews 10 concludes that Christ, by offering his body once for all, brought the repeated sacrifices of the Old Testament to an end. It then urges readers to draw near to God in faith and to keep meeting together, sternly warns against apostasy, and calls for perseverance.

• General Assembly Moderator

  The general assembly moderator (Korean chonghoejang) is the person who represents and presides over the general assembly, the highest deliberative body of a denomination. The office exists in many denominations, including Presbyterian, Holiness, and Baptist churches, and its term and authority vary from one denomination to another.

• Korea World Missions Association

  The Korea World Missions Association (KWMA) is a Korean Protestant cooperative body for overseas missions that brings together the mission boards of various denominations and independent mission organizations. Established in 1990 as an incorporated association, it publishes annual statistics on Korean missionaries and has led the "Target 2030" movement.

• John 20:23

  In this verse the risen Jesus gives the Holy Spirit to his disciples and says, "Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them." The Catholic Church cites it as the scriptural basis for the sacrament of penance. Protestants read it as a declaration of forgiveness through the proclamation of the gospel, so interpretations of the verse differ sharply.

• Romans 5:12

  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. Eastern, Western, and various Protestant traditions differ on how Adam's sin is passed on to his descendants.

• Timothy

  Timothy was one of Paul's foremost coworkers. A native of Lystra, he accompanied Paul on his missionary journeys, and the New Testament letters 1 Timothy and 2 Timothy are presented as addressed to him.

• Lydia

  Lydia was a seller of purple cloth from Thyatira who appears in Acts 16. After hearing Paul speak in Philippi, she was baptized together with her household. She is known as the first convert on European soil recorded in the Book of Acts.

• 1 Thessalonians 1:3

  In this verse Paul says that he gives thanks as he remembers the Thessalonian believers' "work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope." It is frequently quoted because it describes faith, love, and hope as becoming visible in the fruit of everyday life.

• Hebrews 9:27

  Hebrews 9:27 states that human beings die once and afterward face judgment. Although the verse serves as an analogy explaining Christ's once-for-all sacrifice, it is frequently cited in discussions of death, judgment after death, and the rejection of reincarnation.

• Romans 5:18–19

  A passage in which Paul contrasts Adam's one trespass with Christ's one act of obedience, teaching that both condemnation and justification come to many through one man. It is frequently cited in discussions of original sin, justification, and the scope of salvation.

• Psalm 8:5-8

  Psalm 8:5-8 praises God for making human beings "a little lower than the angels" (or "than God"), crowning them with honor, and giving them dominion over all things. The passage is frequently cited in discussions of human dignity and of responsibility for creation, and it is also known as a text that the Epistle to the Hebrews applies to Jesus Christ.

• Aristarchus

  Aristarchus was an early Christian from Thessalonica in Macedonia who accompanied Paul on his missionary travels and on his voyage to Rome. In Colossians, Paul calls this co-worker his "fellowprisoner."

• Macedonia

  Macedonia was a region in the northern part of the Greek peninsula and, in New Testament times, a Roman province. Paul crossed over to it after being called in a vision and founded churches there in cities such as Philippi and Thessalonica.

• The Seventy Disciples

  The Seventy Disciples were a group of disciples whom Jesus Christ appointed in addition to the Twelve and sent ahead of him, two by two, into every city and place he was about to visit. They appear only in Luke 10. Some manuscripts and translations give their number as seventy-two.

• Trophimus

  Trophimus was a Gentile Christian from Ephesus who appears in Acts and 2 Timothy. He accompanied Paul on his final journey to Jerusalem, and a misunderstanding about him became the occasion of Paul's arrest.

• Gaius

  Gaius is the name of one or more first-century Christians mentioned in the New Testament. People bearing this name appear in Acts, the Pauline Epistles, and 3 John, and interpreters disagree about how many different individuals are meant.

• Ethan

  Ethan is the name of several Israelites in the Old Testament. It refers to "Ethan the Ezrahite," the wise man with whom Solomon is compared in 1 Kings; the figure named in the superscription of Psalm 89 as its author; and Ethan the Levite musician of 1 Chronicles.