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Righteousness
[Bible]Righteousness is a central biblical concept referring to the character and acts of God and to a right relationship between God and human beings. In the New Testament, especially in the Pauline epistles, it develops into the teaching of righteousness received by faith, that is, justification.
Sin
[Doctrine & Theology]In Christianity, sin refers both to acts that transgress God's will and law and to the state of having departed from a right relationship with God. The sin that all humanity is held to have inherited from Adam is called original sin.
Agrippa
[People]Agrippa was the Jewish king (Agrippa II) who heard the apostle Paul's defense in Acts 25–26. The name can also refer to his father, Agrippa I, who appears as "Herod the king" in Acts 12.
Tarsus
[Bible]Tarsus was a city in the region of Cilicia in southeastern Asia Minor and the hometown of the apostle Paul. It appears in the New Testament Book of Acts and corresponds to the modern city of Tarsus in southern Türkiye.
Straight Street
[Bible]Straight Street is a street within the city of Damascus mentioned in Acts 9:11. The house of Judas, where Saul stayed immediately after his conversion, stood on this street, and Ananias was sent there.
Pisidian Antioch
[Bible]Pisidian Antioch was a Roman colony in the interior of Asia Minor. Paul and Barnabas preached the gospel in its synagogue during the first missionary journey, as recorded in Acts 13.
Agabus
[People]Agabus was a prophet of the early church who appears twice in the Book of Acts. At Antioch he foretold a great famine, and at Caesarea he prophesied through a symbolic action that Paul would be bound in Jerusalem.
Demetrius
[People]Demetrius was a silversmith of Ephesus, mentioned in Acts 19, who made silver shrines of the goddess Artemis. When Paul's preaching threatened his trade, he stirred up a riot. A different man with the same name appears in 3 John.
Nicolas
[People]Nicolas was one of the seven men chosen by the church in Jerusalem in Acts 6 to oversee the distribution of relief. He was a native of Antioch who had been a proselyte to Judaism.
Blastus
[People]Blastus is a figure mentioned only once, in Acts 12:20, as the chamberlain of King Herod (Agrippa I). When the people of Tyre and Sidon sought to make peace with the king, they conveyed their request through him.
Sopater
[People]Sopater, the son of Pyrrhus, was a man of Berea mentioned once in Scripture, in Acts 20:4. Near the end of Paul's third missionary journey, he was among the companions who traveled with Paul from Macedonia toward Asia.
Paphos
[Bible]Paphos was a city on the southwestern coast of the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. According to Acts 13, Paul and Barnabas proclaimed the gospel there to the Roman proconsul Sergius Paulus during their first missionary journey.
Jeremiah 5
[Bible]Jeremiah 5 opens with the charge that not a single person who acts justly can be found in Jerusalem. The chapter rebukes idolatry, injustice, and false prophecy, and announces judgment through a distant nation.
Theophilus
[People]Theophilus is the person to whom the author of the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles addresses each book at its opening. Both books are dedicated to him, and in the Gospel of Luke he is called "most excellent Theophilus."
Simon the Cananaean
[People]Simon the Cananaean was one of the twelve disciples of Jesus. In Luke and Acts he is called "Simon called Zelotes" (the Zealot), which distinguishes him from Peter, who bore the same name.
Rome
[Bible]Rome was the capital of the Roman Empire in the New Testament era and appears in Acts, Romans, and other books. Paul wrote a letter to the believers there and later went to the city as a prisoner, where he preached the gospel.
Troas
[Bible]Troas was a port city on the Aegean coast of northwestern Asia Minor. The Book of Acts records it as the place where Paul saw the vision of the man of Macedonia and where Eutychus was restored to life.
Lystra
[Bible]Lystra was a city in the region of Lycaonia in Asia Minor. In Acts 14 and 16, it is the place where Paul healed a man who could not walk, where he was stoned, and where he took Timothy with him as a coworker.
Cenchreae
[Bible]Cenchreae was the eastern port of Corinth in New Testament times. Paul had his hair cut there because of a vow (Acts 18:18), and it was home to the church that Phoebe served (Romans 16:1).
Phoenicia
[Bible]Phoenicia is a New Testament place name for the eastern coast of the Mediterranean, roughly the coastal region of present-day Lebanon. Its chief cities were Tyre and Sidon, and in Acts it appears as a gateway through which the gospel spread into Gentile lands.