Collection [N] [E]Any organized gathering of funds or resources. In the Bible, collections are often taken for the benefit of others and not for onese...
Isaiah 49:20 The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other Which other lost are not the Jews, the broken branches, rejected and c...
TIMOTHY. CHAPTER I. The Work Assigned to Timothy. SUMMARY.--Greetings. Why Timothy was Left at Ephesus. The True Object of the Commandment. Whom t...
Pride [N] [T] The Old Testament. While pride is sometimes used in the Old Testament in a positive sense (i.e., the pride of the land of Israel [ Psalm...
Christians, Names of The New Testament contains over 175 names, descriptive titles, and figures of speech referring to Christians, applicable to both ...
TITUS. CHAPTER II. Practical Duties Versus Unsound Doctrine. SUMMARY.--Duties of the Aged. Of the Young Men and Women. Of Servants. Christian L...
Spirits in Prison The spirits in prison are referred to in 1 Peter 3:19-20, where Peter declares that they disobeyed in the time of Noah and that Chri...
Overseer [N]The word overseer (Gk. episkopos [ejpivskopo]) is used a limited number of times in the New Testament, but it has significant implications...
Persecution [N] [T] [E]Just as the Bible graphically describes the introduction and spread of sin in the world, it also depicts the presence and reali...
Conscience [N] [T] [E]Conscience is a term that describes an aspect of a human being's self-awareness. It is part of a person's internal rational capa...
Chapter?26We have here an account of the business of the Levites. That tribe had made but a very small figure all the time of the judges, till Eli and...
The seven churches appear to typify a broad range of strengths and weaknesses which are found in any church in any location in any age. Each letter to...
Kerygma Transliteration of the Greek word that means proclamation or preaching. Depending on thecontext, it may refer to either the content proclaimed...
HYMENAEUS hi-men-e'-us (Humenaios, so named from Hymen, the god of marriage, 1?Timothy 1:20; 2?Timothy 2:17): A heretical teacher in Ephesus, an oppo...
Rome [N] [E] [H] [S]The church in Rome, to which Paul wrote the Roman letter from Corinth, was not founded by Paul. He had not yet been to Rome, but h...
As mentioned previously, a major early testimony to the late date of the book of Revelation is found in the statement by Irenaeus (ca. 130-200) to th...
Education in Bible Times Education is essential to the survival of any social group, since a community secures its continued existence and development...
Ephesus [N] [H] [S]the capital of proconsular Asia, which was the western part of Asia Minor. It was colonized principally from Athens. In the time of...
Mission Basic Definition. Mission is the divine activity of sending intermediaries, whether supernatural or human, to speak or do God's will so that h...
PSALM 118 Psalms 118:1-29 . After invoking others to unite in praise, the writer celebrates God's protecting and delivering care towards him,...