In 1 Kings 21, Ahab sulks, Jezebel arranges Naboth's death for a vineyard, and God sends Elijah with a verdict. The chapter exposes how power and greed work, and what true repentance looks like.

The African Methodist Episcopal Church began when Black Methodists in Philadelphia were treated as second-class worshipers and walked out to form their own society. Acts 15:1-29 gives the theological shape of that decision: salvation is by grace, not by added cultural requirements, and the church must not lay burdens on believers that God has not laid.

Adoniram Judson's missionary life illustrates the constraining love of Christ in 2 Corinthians 5:14-15. A Scripture-first look at what drives sacrificial obedience and what it does not promise.

Adoni-Bezek was a Canaanite king captured by Judah at Bezek, who admitted that seventy kings maimed by him had gathered scraps under his table. What he received matched what he had done, and the text presents it as justice, not mere vengeance.

Admah and Zeboiim appear in Genesis 14 among the five cities of the plain, in Genesis 10 among the borders of Canaan, and in Deuteronomy 29 and Hosea 11 as shorthand for judgment and the limit of divine anger.

The Adamic covenant is the arrangement God made with Adam in Eden, where life and blessing hung on obedience and death followed transgression. Romans 5:12-21 sets that first covenant beside the work of Christ, the last Adam, who secures righteousness and life for all who are his.

God formed the man from the dust, breathed life into him, planted a garden, and made the woman from his side. Genesis 2 grounds the Bible's teaching about humanity, marriage, and why we need rescue.

Romans 5:12-19 sets Adam and Christ side by side: one man's trespass brought death to all, and one man's obedience brings justification and life. Whether Adam and Eve themselves were saved belongs to the consistent testimony of Scripture, not to a single proof text.

Genesis 2:9-17 places the tree of life in the middle of the garden before sin entered the world. It was a real tree and a real gift, not a symbol of magic or a reward for good behavior, and its loss teaches us what fellowship with God truly is.

God told the man not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, warning that in the day he ate of it he would surely die. Genesis 3 records the disobedience, the sentence, and the first promise of rescue, and Romans 5:12 traces sin and death to all humanity through one man.

Genesis 1:26-27 grounds human dignity in God's own image, not in our usefulness. Adam and Eve are presented as real people, and Jesus himself treats the creation account that way.

The Acts of Paul and Thecla is an early Christian novel from the second century, not part of the New Testament. Acts 14:8-20 gives the actual account of Paul at Lystra that the later legend reshaped.

Achaia was the Roman province whose capital was Corinth, the city where Paul spent eighteen months planting a church. Scripture links Achaia to Paul's mission, the Corinthian letters, and a gift for the poor in Jerusalem.

Absalom set up a pillar in the King's Valley because he had no son to keep his name alive. The monument is a small window into a rebellion driven by pride, and into the wider pattern of self-made memory that runs through Scripture.

In Genesis 12:10-20 Abram tells Pharaoh that Sarai is his sister, and God rescues her anyway. The passage is honest about the patriarch's fear and clear about God's faithfulness to his promise.

Genesis 22 records God testing Abraham by commanding him to offer Isaac, the long-awaited son of promise. The passage shows obedient faith, God's provision of a substitute, and the deepening of the covenant line from Abraham and Sarah through Isaac.

Abiram was a Reubenite, the son of Eliab, who joined Korah's rebellion against Moses and Aaron and was swallowed by the earth along with his household. Scripture remembers his name three more times as a warning, not a hero.

The Aaronic blessing in Numbers 6:22-27 is God's own wording for how his people are to be blessed. It moves from provision to protection to presence to peace, and it ends with God putting his name on his people.

Numbers 17 records the sign of Aaron's rod that budded overnight, God's answer to a dispute about who had the right to serve as priest. The passage is about God vindicating his own appointment, not about a relic with power of its own.

A.W. Tozer is remembered for insisting that God seeks worshippers who come to him in spirit and truth, not merely in correct forms. John 4:23-24 was central to that conviction, and it still searches the heart of every believer.