Christians believe that God has established a new covenant with people through Jesus, as recorded in the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, Epistles, and other books collectively called the New Testament ( the word testament attributed to Tertullian is commonly interchanged with the word covenant ).

While he does exclude himself from those who were eyewitnesses to Jesus ' ministry, he repeatedly uses the word " we " in describing the Pauline missions in Acts of the Apostles, indicating that he was personally there at those times.

In Acts 14: 9, the word " not " inserted before " heard "; in Hebr.

" Acts 2: 41 then reports: " Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.

The scriptures do not use the word evangelism, but evangelist is used in ( the translations of ) Acts 21: 8, Ephesians 4: 11, and 2 Timothy 4: 5.

In Luke 24: 14, we find the word homiloun, and in Acts 24: 26, homilei, both used in the sense of " speaking with ".

The word, apokatastasis, only appears once in the Bible in Acts 3: 21.

Leaders and scriptural texts of the LDS Church actually affirm a belief in the Holy Trinity but use the word " Godhead " ( a term used by the Apostle Paul in Acts 17: 29 ; Romans 1: 20, and Colossians 2: 9 ) as a means to set apart their belief that the unity of the three persons of the Trinity includes unity in all things, except a physical unity of beings.

Taking the Greek word zelotes in Acts 22: 3 and Galatians 1: 14 of the New Testament to mean a ' Zealot ' with capital Z ( the earliest Greek manuscripts are uncials or all capital letters ), an article by Mark R. Fairchild suggests that Paul the Apostle may have been a Zealot, which might have been the driving force behind his persecution of the Christians ( see stoning of Saint Stephen ) before his conversion to Christianity, and his incident at Antioch even after his conversion.

They called it Koinonia ( κοινωνία ), a word meaning communion or fellowship that in Acts 2: 42 is applied to the earliest Christian community.

One notable change that was beyond just revising language flaws was a correction changing the word " Easter " in Acts 12: 4 to the word " Passover ".

* Acts 13: 48: " And when the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord, and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed.

Acts, 20: 35, " Remember the word of the Lord Jesus, how he said: It is a more blessed thing to give, rather than to receive.

According to the Book of Acts, Chapter 17 verse 11, Paul of Tarsus and Silas preached at Berea, and the inhabitants "... received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

The word " Berean " was chosen to reflect the words in Acts 17, " These ( Berea ) were more noble than those in Thessalonica in that they received the word with all readiness of mind and searched the scriptures daily whether those things were so.

" Nor is this " Joseph the Just, son of the ' sabbath '"— as his name translates — identified as one of the adelphoi of Jesus — however this Greek word for " brothers " may be interpreted — in this one passage in Acts in which he appears.

This had been part of the course of events which resulted in the passing of the Architects ( Registration ) Acts, 1931 to 1938 which established the statutory Register of Architects and monopolistic restrictions on the use of the vernacular word " architect ", imposed with threat of penalty on prosecution for infringement.

The word in Greek means " Friend of God " and thus both Luke and Acts were addressed to anyone who fits that description.

The only other place the word occurs in the New Testament is at Acts 13: 6 and Acts 13: 8.

The United House of Prayer for All People believes that the word church means a group of Christians who are believers and worshippers in Christ and that the modern definition of church as a building, denomination, or institution is unbiblical according to the writings of the Holy Scriptures as recorded in Acts 9: 31.

The conventional symbol Z comes from the German word meaning number / numeral / figure, which prior to the modern synthesis of ideas from chemistry and physics, merely denoted an element's numerical place in the periodic table.

Though the word atom originally denoted a particle that cannot be cut into smaller particles, in modern scientific usage the atom is composed of various subatomic particles.

For any alphabet there is only one word of length 0, the empty word, which is often denoted by e, ε or λ.

In Protestant England, the word communism was too culturally and aurally close to the Roman Catholic communion rite, hence English atheists denoted themselves socialists.

Among Anglophones, the word nigger was not always considered derogatory, because it then denoted " black-skinned ", a common Anglophone usage.

It derives from gentry, which is derived from the Old French word genterise denoting " of gentle birth " ( 14th c .) and " people of gentle birth " ( 16th c .); which in England ( Landed gentry ) denoted the social class, consisting of " gentlemen ".

Well-known categories are denoted by a short capitalized word or abbreviation in bold or italics: examples include Set, the category of sets and set functions ; Ring, the category of rings and ring homomorphisms ; and Top, the category of topological spaces and continuous maps.

The word originally denoted a carnival worker who pretended to be a member of the audience in an attempt to elicit interest in an attraction.

Historically, the mediæval French word bourgeois denoted the inhabitants of the bourgs ( walled market-towns ), the craftsmen, artisans, merchants, and others, who constituted " the bourgeoisie ", they were the socio-economic class between the peasants and the landlords, between the workers and the owners of the means of production.

Prior to the widespread use of word processors, bullets were often denoted either by a lower-case “ o ” filed-in with ink or by asterisks (*), and several word processors automatically convert asterisks to bullets if used at the start of line.

Upamāna, which can be roughly translated as comparison is the knowledge of the relationship between a word and the object denoted by the word.

The several variable case can be further generalised by taking non-commuting variables X < sub > i </ sub > for i ∈ I, where I is an index set and then a monomial X < sup > α </ sup > is any word in the X < sub > I </ sub >; a formal power series in X < sub > I </ sub > with coefficients in a ring R is determined by any mapping from the set of monomials X < sup > α </ sup > to a corresponding coefficient c < sub > α </ sub >, and is denoted.

It is usually denoted Z as an abbreviation of the German word Zahlen ( numbers ).

Denim was traditionally colored blue with indigo dye to make blue " jeans ", though " jean " then denoted a different, lighter cotton textile ; the contemporary use of jean comes from the French word for Genoa, Italy ( Gênes ), where the first denim trousers were made.

Parlour derives from the Old French word parloir or parler (" to speak "), and entered English around the turn of the 13th century In its original usage it denoted a place set aside for speaking with someone, an " audience chamber ".

The term " Crisis " was a word used frequently in DC Comics of the time, as it denoted an inter-dimensional crossover, such as the yearly Justice League / Justice Society crossovers that began with " Crisis on Earth-One ".

Both MacBain ( 1982 ) and Julius Pokorny ( 1959: 203 ) correlate the element with Norse böð, genitive boðvar, ‘ war ,’ and Anglo-Saxon beadu, genitive beadwe, ‘ battle ,’ suggesting that the word originally denoted ‘ battle ’ or ‘ strife .’ Julius Pokorny ( 1959: 203 ) presents the element as an extended form of the Proto-Indo-European root * bhedh-‘ pierce, dig .’ To this root Pokorny also links the Sanskrit bádhate, ‘ oppress ,’ and the Lithuanian bádas, ‘ famine ’.

German also distinguishes between young women and girls, who are denoted by the word Mädchen.

In Brazil, the word crioulo initially denoted persons of Portuguese parentage born in Brazil ( as distinct from colonists that migrated from Portugal ), like in Portuguese-speaking Africa.

In Anglo-Saxon the word Han denoted a boundary stone.

While the word " bog " denoted nearly all Slavic gods, the word Deva in its cognate Div was used only for the creator god-Rod, the Slavic equivalent of Brahma.