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• 1 John 1

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  First John 1 opens the letter with the testimony of witnesses who personally saw and heard "the Word of life." It then presents the message that "God is light" and addresses fellowship through walking in the light, the confession of sin, and forgiveness.

• 2 Timothy 1:9

  [Bible Verses]

  A verse stating that God saved and called people not on the basis of their works but on the basis of the grace given them in Christ before the world began. It is frequently cited in discussions of grace, calling, and predestination.

• 1 Timothy 1:9–10

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  1 Timothy 1:9–10 is a passage in which Paul tells Timothy that the law is made not for the righteous but for the lawless and for sinners, followed by a catalog of sins. It is frequently cited in theological discussions of the uses of the law and in the debate over homosexuality, particularly concerning the translation of the term rendered in the KJV as "them that defile themselves with mankind."

• 2 Timothy 2:13

  [Bible Verses]

  A verse declaring that even when people are unfaithful, the Lord remains faithful and cannot act against his own nature. It is often quoted as a promise of comfort, and denominations differ in emphasis over how it bears on the assurance of salvation and on warnings against apostasy.

• New Testament Apocrypha

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  The New Testament Apocrypha is a collective term for early Christian writings that tell stories about Jesus and the apostles or bear an apostle's name but were not included among the twenty-seven books of the New Testament canon.

• Aristarchus

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  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."

• Ekklesia

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  Ekklesia (ἐκκλησία) is a Greek word meaning "assembly" or "congregation." In the New Testament it is usually translated "church."

• James 3

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  James 3 warns of the responsibility borne by those who teach and of the difficulty of controlling the tongue (speech), and it contrasts earthly wisdom with the wisdom that is from above.

• Epistles

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  The Epistles are the twenty-one books of the New Testament, from Romans through Jude, that were written in letter form. They are commonly divided into the Pauline Epistles, Hebrews, and the General Epistles, and within the Pauline Epistles the Prison Epistles and the Pastoral Epistles are often distinguished.

• Prison Epistles

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  The Prison Epistles is the collective name for Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, and Philemon, the four letters in which the apostle Paul indicates that he is writing while in confinement.

• Luke

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  Luke was a first-century coworker of Paul who is called "the beloved physician" in the Pauline epistles. Church tradition regards him as the author of the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles.

• Gaius

  [People]

  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.

• Conscience

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  Conscience is a biblical term for the inner awareness by which a person reflects on and knows the rightness or wrongness of his or her own conduct. It appears chiefly in the Pauline Epistles of the New Testament.

• Colossians 1

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  The first chapter of Colossians, in which Paul greets the believers at Colossae, gives thanks for them, and prays for them. It contains a hymn (verses 15–20) exalting Christ as the image of the invisible God, the Creator of all things, and the head of the church.

• Authorship of the Bible

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  The authorship of the Bible concerns who wrote each of the books of Scripture. The Bible speaks both of the inspiration of the Holy Spirit and of the writing of human authors, and denominations and scholars differ in how they understand the authorship and inspiration of each book.

• Acts of the Apostles

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  The Acts of the Apostles is the fifth book of the New Testament. It records how, after the ascension of Jesus Christ and with the coming of the Holy Spirit, the church began in Jerusalem and spread as far as Rome.