1 Timothy 1:15 Here’s a word you can take to heart and depend on: Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. I’m proof—Public Sinner Number One—of someone who could ...

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The Message - Here’s a word you can take to heart and depend on: Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. I’m proof—Public Sinner Number One—of someone who could never have made it apart from sheer mercy. And now he shows me off—evidence of his endless patience—to those who are right on the edge of trusting him forever. Deep honor and bright glory to the King of All Time— One God, Immortal, Invisible, ever and always. Oh, yes! I’m passing this work on to you, my son Timothy. The prophetic word that was directed to you prepared us for this. All those prayers are coming together now so you will do this well, fearless in your struggle, keeping a firm grip on your faith and on yourself. After all, this is a fight we’re in.
新标点和合本 - “基督耶稣降世，为要拯救罪人。”这话是可信的，是十分可佩服的。在罪人中我是个罪魁。
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 这话可信，值得完全接受：“基督耶稣到世上来是要拯救罪人”，而在罪人中我是个罪魁。
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 这话可信，值得完全接受：“基督耶稣到世上来是要拯救罪人”，而在罪人中我是个罪魁。
当代译本 - 这句话千真万确、完全可信：“基督耶稣降世，为要拯救罪人。”在罪人中我是个罪魁，
圣经新译本 - “基督耶稣降世，为要拯救罪人。”这话是可信的，是值得完全接纳的。在罪人中我是个罪魁。
中文标准译本 - “基督耶稣来到这世界，为要拯救罪人。”这话是信实的，值得完全接受。在罪人中我是首恶，
现代标点和合本 - “基督耶稣降世，为要拯救罪人。”这话是可信的，是十分可佩服的。在罪人中我是个罪魁！
和合本（拼音版） - “基督耶稣降世，为要拯救罪人。”这话是可信的，是十分可佩服的。在罪人中我是个罪魁。
New International Version - Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners—of whom I am the worst.
New International Reader's Version - Here is a saying that you can trust. It should be accepted completely. Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. And I am the worst sinner of all.
English Standard Version - The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost.
New Living Translation - This is a trustworthy saying, and everyone should accept it: “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners”—and I am the worst of them all.
Christian Standard Bible - This saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance: “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners” — and I am the worst of them.
New American Standard Bible - It is a trustworthy statement, deserving full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, among whom I am foremost.
New King James Version - This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.
Amplified Bible - This is a faithful and trustworthy statement, deserving full acceptance and approval, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, among whom I am foremost.
American Standard Version - Faithful is the saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief:
King James Version - This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.
New English Translation - This saying is trustworthy and deserves full acceptance: “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners” – and I am the worst of them!
World English Bible - The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.
新標點和合本 - 「基督耶穌降世，為要拯救罪人。」這話是可信的，是十分可佩服的。在罪人中我是個罪魁。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 這話可信，值得完全接受：「基督耶穌到世上來是要拯救罪人」，而在罪人中我是個罪魁。
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 這話可信，值得完全接受：「基督耶穌到世上來是要拯救罪人」，而在罪人中我是個罪魁。
當代譯本 - 這句話千真萬確、完全可信：「基督耶穌降世，為要拯救罪人。」在罪人中我是個罪魁，
聖經新譯本 - “基督耶穌降世，為要拯救罪人。”這話是可信的，是值得完全接納的。在罪人中我是個罪魁。
呂振中譯本 - 有一句話是可信可靠，是全然值得悅納的，就是：『基督耶穌到世界上來、是要拯救罪人』；其中的罪魁呢、我就是；
中文標準譯本 - 「基督耶穌來到這世界，為要拯救罪人。」這話是信實的，值得完全接受。在罪人中我是首惡，
現代標點和合本 - 「基督耶穌降世，為要拯救罪人。」這話是可信的，是十分可佩服的。在罪人中我是個罪魁！
文理和合譯本 - 基督耶穌臨世以救罪人、誠哉是言、宜盡納之、其中我為元惡、
文理委辦譯本 - 有一言可信可嘉者、即基督耶穌臨世救罪人、其中我乃元惡、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 基督耶穌臨世、以救罪人、此言可信、人當悅納者、罪人中我本元惡、
吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 吾人常言、基督之降生斯世、為救罪人也。旨哉言乎、不我欺也。而罪人之中、吾其尤著者也。
Nueva Versión Internacional - Este mensaje es digno de crédito y merece ser aceptado por todos: que Cristo Jesús vino al mundo a salvar a los pecadores, de los cuales yo soy el primero.
현대인의 성경 - 여기에 모든 사람이 받아들여도 좋은 믿을 만한 말이 있습니다. 그리스도 예수님이 죄인들을 구원하시려고 세상에 오셨다는 것이 바로 그것입니다. 나는 죄인 중에서도 두목입니다.
Новый Русский Перевод - Правильно и достоверно изречение: Иисус Христос пришел в этот мир, чтобы спасти грешников, самый худший из которых – я.
Восточный перевод - Правильно и достоверно изречение: «Иса Масих пришёл в этот мир, чтобы спасти грешников», а я самый худший из них.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Правильно и достоверно изречение: «Иса аль-Масих пришёл в этот мир, чтобы спасти грешников», а я самый худший из них.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Правильно и достоверно изречение: «Исо Масех пришёл в этот мир, чтобы спасти грешников», а я самый худший из них.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - La parole que voici est certaine, elle mérite d’être reçue sans réserve : « Jésus-Christ est venu dans ce monde pour sauver des pécheurs. » Je suis, pour ma part, l’exemple type d’entre eux.
リビングバイブル - 「キリスト・イエスは、罪人を救うためにこの世に来てくださった」ということばは真実で、そのとおり受け入れるべきものです。私は、その罪人の中でも筆頭格の人間です。
Nestle Aland 28 - πιστὸς ὁ λόγος καὶ πάσης ἀποδοχῆς ἄξιος, ὅτι Χριστὸς Ἰησοῦς ἦλθεν εἰς τὸν κόσμον ἁμαρτωλοὺς σῶσαι, ὧν πρῶτός εἰμι ἐγώ.
unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - πιστὸς ὁ λόγος, καὶ πάσης ἀποδοχῆς ἄξιος: ὅτι Χριστὸς Ἰησοῦς ἦλθεν εἰς τὸν κόσμον ἁμαρτωλοὺς σῶσαι, ὧν πρῶτός εἰμι ἐγώ.
Nova Versão Internacional - Esta afirmação é fiel e digna de toda aceitação: Cristo Jesus veio ao mundo para salvar os pecadores, dos quais eu sou o pior.
Hoffnung für alle - Denn das steht unumstößlich fest, darauf dürfen wir vertrauen: Jesus Christus ist in diese Welt gekommen, um uns gottlose Menschen zu retten. Ich selbst bin der Schlimmste von ihnen.
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Đây là lời trung thực, đáng được mọi người tin nhận: Chúa Cứu Thế Giê-xu đã xuống trần gian để cứu vớt người tội lỗi. Trong những người tội lỗi ấy, ta nặng tội nhất.
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - ข้อความนี้เป็นความจริงซึ่งสมควรแก่การยอมรับโดยไม่มีข้อกังขา คือพระเยซูคริสต์เสด็จเข้ามาในโลกเพื่อช่วยคนบาปให้รอด และในบรรดาคนบาปข้าพเจ้าเป็นตัวร้ายที่สุด
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - ข้อความนี้เป็นที่ไว้ใจได้ สมควรที่คนทั้งปวงจะยอมรับ คือพระเยซูคริสต์ได้เข้ามาในโลกเพื่อช่วยคนบาปทั้งหลายให้รอดพ้น ข้าพเจ้านี่แหละ เป็นตัวเอกในหมู่คนบาป

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Acts 11:18 - Hearing it all laid out like that, they quieted down. And then, as it sank in, they started praising God. “It’s really happened! God has broken through to the other nations, opened them up to Life!”
1 Timothy 1:19 - There are some, you know, who by relaxing their grip and thinking anything goes have made a thorough mess of their faith. Hymenaeus and Alexander are two of them. I let them wander off to Satan to be taught a lesson or two about not blaspheming.
Matthew 18:10 - “Watch that you don’t treat a single one of these childlike believers arrogantly. You realize, don’t you, that their personal angels are constantly in touch with my Father in heaven?
Ezekiel 36:31 - “‘And then you’ll think back over your terrible lives—the evil, the shame—and be thoroughly disgusted with yourselves, realizing how badly you’ve lived—all those obscenities you’ve carried out.
Ezekiel 36:32 - “‘I’m not doing this for you. Get this through your thick heads! Shame on you. What a mess you made of things, Israel!
Acts 11:1 - The news traveled fast and in no time the leaders and friends back in Jerusalem heard about it—heard that the non-Jewish “outsiders” were now “in.” When Peter got back to Jerusalem, some of his old associates, concerned about circumcision, called him on the carpet: “What do you think you’re doing rubbing shoulders with that crowd, eating what is prohibited and ruining our good name?”
Romans 3:25 - God sacrificed Jesus on the altar of the world to clear that world of sin. Having faith in him sets us in the clear. God decided on this course of action in full view of the public—to set the world in the clear with himself through the sacrifice of Jesus, finally taking care of the sins he had so patiently endured. This is not only clear, but it’s now—this is current history! God sets things right. He also makes it possible for us to live in his rightness.
Romans 5:6 - Christ arrives right on time to make this happen. He didn’t, and doesn’t, wait for us to get ready. He presented himself for this sacrificial death when we were far too weak and rebellious to do anything to get ourselves ready. And even if we hadn’t been so weak, we wouldn’t have known what to do anyway. We can understand someone dying for a person worth dying for, and we can understand how someone good and noble could inspire us to selfless sacrifice. But God put his love on the line for us by offering his Son in sacrificial death while we were of no use whatever to him.
1 Timothy 3:1 - If anyone wants to provide leadership in the church, good! But there are preconditions: A leader must be well-thought-of, committed to his wife, cool and collected, accessible, and hospitable. He must know what he’s talking about, not be overfond of wine, not pushy but gentle, not thin-skinned, not money-hungry. He must handle his own affairs well, attentive to his own children and having their respect. For if someone is unable to handle his own affairs, how can he take care of God’s church? He must not be a new believer, lest the position go to his head and the Devil trip him up. Outsiders must think well of him, or else the Devil will figure out a way to lure him into his trap.
Titus 3:8 - I want you to put your foot down. Take a firm stand on these matters so that those who have put their trust in God will concentrate on the essentials that are good for everyone. Stay away from mindless, pointless quarreling over genealogies and fine print in the law code. That gets you nowhere. Warn a quarrelsome person once or twice, but then be done with him. It’s obvious that such a person is out of line, rebellious against God. By persisting in divisiveness he cuts himself off. * * *
Revelation 22:6 - The Angel said to me, “These are dependable and accurate words, every one. The God and Master of the spirits of the prophets sent his Angel to show his servants what must take place, and soon. And tell them, ‘Yes, I’m on my way!’ Blessed be the one who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.”
John 1:29 - The very next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and yelled out, “Here he is, God’s Passover Lamb! He forgives the sins of the world! This is the man I’ve been talking about, ‘the One who comes after me but is really ahead of me.’ I knew nothing about who he was—only this: that my task has been to get Israel ready to recognize him as the God-Revealer. That is why I came here baptizing with water, giving you a good bath and scrubbing sins from your life so you can get a fresh start with God.”
Ephesians 3:8 - And so here I am, preaching and writing about things that are way over my head, the inexhaustible riches and generosity of Christ. My task is to bring out in the open and make plain what God, who created all this in the first place, has been doing in secret and behind the scenes all along. Through followers of Jesus like yourselves gathered in churches, this extraordinary plan of God is becoming known and talked about even among the angels!
Romans 5:9 - Now that we are set right with God by means of this sacrificial death, the consummate blood sacrifice, there is no longer a question of being at odds with God in any way. If, when we were at our worst, we were put on friendly terms with God by the sacrificial death of his Son, now that we’re at our best, just think of how our lives will expand and deepen by means of his resurrection life! Now that we have actually received this amazing friendship with God, we are no longer content to simply say it in plodding prose. We sing and shout our praises to God through Jesus, the Messiah!
John 12:47 - “If anyone hears what I am saying and doesn’t take it seriously, I don’t reject him. I didn’t come to reject the world; I came to save the world. But you need to know that whoever puts me off, refusing to take in what I’m saying, is willfully choosing rejection. The Word, the Word-made-flesh that I have spoken and that I am, that Word and no other is the last word. I’m not making any of this up on my own. The Father who sent me gave me orders, told me what to say and how to say it. And I know exactly what his command produces: real and eternal life. That’s all I have to say. What the Father told me, I tell you.”
John 3:16 - “This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. God didn’t go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again. Anyone who trusts in him is acquitted; anyone who refuses to trust him has long since been under the death sentence without knowing it. And why? Because of that person’s failure to believe in the one-of-a-kind Son of God when introduced to him.
Mark 2:17 - Jesus, overhearing, shot back, “Who needs a doctor: the healthy or the sick? I’m here inviting the sin-sick, not the spiritually-fit.”

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The Message - Here’s a word you can take to heart and depend on: Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. I’m proof—Public Sinner Number One—of someone who could never have made it apart from sheer mercy. And now he shows me off—evidence of his endless patience—to those who are right on the edge of trusting him forever. Deep honor and bright glory to the King of All Time— One God, Immortal, Invisible, ever and always. Oh, yes! I’m passing this work on to you, my son Timothy. The prophetic word that was directed to you prepared us for this. All those prayers are coming together now so you will do this well, fearless in your struggle, keeping a firm grip on your faith and on yourself. After all, this is a fight we’re in.
新标点和合本 - “基督耶稣降世，为要拯救罪人。”这话是可信的，是十分可佩服的。在罪人中我是个罪魁。
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 这话可信，值得完全接受：“基督耶稣到世上来是要拯救罪人”，而在罪人中我是个罪魁。
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 这话可信，值得完全接受：“基督耶稣到世上来是要拯救罪人”，而在罪人中我是个罪魁。
当代译本 - 这句话千真万确、完全可信：“基督耶稣降世，为要拯救罪人。”在罪人中我是个罪魁，
圣经新译本 - “基督耶稣降世，为要拯救罪人。”这话是可信的，是值得完全接纳的。在罪人中我是个罪魁。
中文标准译本 - “基督耶稣来到这世界，为要拯救罪人。”这话是信实的，值得完全接受。在罪人中我是首恶，
现代标点和合本 - “基督耶稣降世，为要拯救罪人。”这话是可信的，是十分可佩服的。在罪人中我是个罪魁！
和合本（拼音版） - “基督耶稣降世，为要拯救罪人。”这话是可信的，是十分可佩服的。在罪人中我是个罪魁。
New International Version - Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners—of whom I am the worst.
New International Reader's Version - Here is a saying that you can trust. It should be accepted completely. Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. And I am the worst sinner of all.
English Standard Version - The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost.
New Living Translation - This is a trustworthy saying, and everyone should accept it: “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners”—and I am the worst of them all.
Christian Standard Bible - This saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance: “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners” — and I am the worst of them.
New American Standard Bible - It is a trustworthy statement, deserving full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, among whom I am foremost.
New King James Version - This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.
Amplified Bible - This is a faithful and trustworthy statement, deserving full acceptance and approval, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, among whom I am foremost.
American Standard Version - Faithful is the saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief:
King James Version - This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.
New English Translation - This saying is trustworthy and deserves full acceptance: “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners” – and I am the worst of them!
World English Bible - The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.
新標點和合本 - 「基督耶穌降世，為要拯救罪人。」這話是可信的，是十分可佩服的。在罪人中我是個罪魁。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 這話可信，值得完全接受：「基督耶穌到世上來是要拯救罪人」，而在罪人中我是個罪魁。
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 這話可信，值得完全接受：「基督耶穌到世上來是要拯救罪人」，而在罪人中我是個罪魁。
當代譯本 - 這句話千真萬確、完全可信：「基督耶穌降世，為要拯救罪人。」在罪人中我是個罪魁，
聖經新譯本 - “基督耶穌降世，為要拯救罪人。”這話是可信的，是值得完全接納的。在罪人中我是個罪魁。
呂振中譯本 - 有一句話是可信可靠，是全然值得悅納的，就是：『基督耶穌到世界上來、是要拯救罪人』；其中的罪魁呢、我就是；
中文標準譯本 - 「基督耶穌來到這世界，為要拯救罪人。」這話是信實的，值得完全接受。在罪人中我是首惡，
現代標點和合本 - 「基督耶穌降世，為要拯救罪人。」這話是可信的，是十分可佩服的。在罪人中我是個罪魁！
文理和合譯本 - 基督耶穌臨世以救罪人、誠哉是言、宜盡納之、其中我為元惡、
文理委辦譯本 - 有一言可信可嘉者、即基督耶穌臨世救罪人、其中我乃元惡、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 基督耶穌臨世、以救罪人、此言可信、人當悅納者、罪人中我本元惡、
吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 吾人常言、基督之降生斯世、為救罪人也。旨哉言乎、不我欺也。而罪人之中、吾其尤著者也。
Nueva Versión Internacional - Este mensaje es digno de crédito y merece ser aceptado por todos: que Cristo Jesús vino al mundo a salvar a los pecadores, de los cuales yo soy el primero.
현대인의 성경 - 여기에 모든 사람이 받아들여도 좋은 믿을 만한 말이 있습니다. 그리스도 예수님이 죄인들을 구원하시려고 세상에 오셨다는 것이 바로 그것입니다. 나는 죄인 중에서도 두목입니다.
Новый Русский Перевод - Правильно и достоверно изречение: Иисус Христос пришел в этот мир, чтобы спасти грешников, самый худший из которых – я.
Восточный перевод - Правильно и достоверно изречение: «Иса Масих пришёл в этот мир, чтобы спасти грешников», а я самый худший из них.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Правильно и достоверно изречение: «Иса аль-Масих пришёл в этот мир, чтобы спасти грешников», а я самый худший из них.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Правильно и достоверно изречение: «Исо Масех пришёл в этот мир, чтобы спасти грешников», а я самый худший из них.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - La parole que voici est certaine, elle mérite d’être reçue sans réserve : « Jésus-Christ est venu dans ce monde pour sauver des pécheurs. » Je suis, pour ma part, l’exemple type d’entre eux.
リビングバイブル - 「キリスト・イエスは、罪人を救うためにこの世に来てくださった」ということばは真実で、そのとおり受け入れるべきものです。私は、その罪人の中でも筆頭格の人間です。
Nestle Aland 28 - πιστὸς ὁ λόγος καὶ πάσης ἀποδοχῆς ἄξιος, ὅτι Χριστὸς Ἰησοῦς ἦλθεν εἰς τὸν κόσμον ἁμαρτωλοὺς σῶσαι, ὧν πρῶτός εἰμι ἐγώ.
unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - πιστὸς ὁ λόγος, καὶ πάσης ἀποδοχῆς ἄξιος: ὅτι Χριστὸς Ἰησοῦς ἦλθεν εἰς τὸν κόσμον ἁμαρτωλοὺς σῶσαι, ὧν πρῶτός εἰμι ἐγώ.
Nova Versão Internacional - Esta afirmação é fiel e digna de toda aceitação: Cristo Jesus veio ao mundo para salvar os pecadores, dos quais eu sou o pior.
Hoffnung für alle - Denn das steht unumstößlich fest, darauf dürfen wir vertrauen: Jesus Christus ist in diese Welt gekommen, um uns gottlose Menschen zu retten. Ich selbst bin der Schlimmste von ihnen.
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Đây là lời trung thực, đáng được mọi người tin nhận: Chúa Cứu Thế Giê-xu đã xuống trần gian để cứu vớt người tội lỗi. Trong những người tội lỗi ấy, ta nặng tội nhất.
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - ข้อความนี้เป็นความจริงซึ่งสมควรแก่การยอมรับโดยไม่มีข้อกังขา คือพระเยซูคริสต์เสด็จเข้ามาในโลกเพื่อช่วยคนบาปให้รอด และในบรรดาคนบาปข้าพเจ้าเป็นตัวร้ายที่สุด
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - ข้อความนี้เป็นที่ไว้ใจได้ สมควรที่คนทั้งปวงจะยอมรับ คือพระเยซูคริสต์ได้เข้ามาในโลกเพื่อช่วยคนบาปทั้งหลายให้รอดพ้น ข้าพเจ้านี่แหละ เป็นตัวเอกในหมู่คนบาป

Acts 11:18 - Hearing it all laid out like that, they quieted down. And then, as it sank in, they started praising God. “It’s really happened! God has broken through to the other nations, opened them up to Life!”
1 Timothy 1:19 - There are some, you know, who by relaxing their grip and thinking anything goes have made a thorough mess of their faith. Hymenaeus and Alexander are two of them. I let them wander off to Satan to be taught a lesson or two about not blaspheming.
Matthew 18:10 - “Watch that you don’t treat a single one of these childlike believers arrogantly. You realize, don’t you, that their personal angels are constantly in touch with my Father in heaven?
Ezekiel 36:31 - “‘And then you’ll think back over your terrible lives—the evil, the shame—and be thoroughly disgusted with yourselves, realizing how badly you’ve lived—all those obscenities you’ve carried out.
Ezekiel 36:32 - “‘I’m not doing this for you. Get this through your thick heads! Shame on you. What a mess you made of things, Israel!
Acts 11:1 - The news traveled fast and in no time the leaders and friends back in Jerusalem heard about it—heard that the non-Jewish “outsiders” were now “in.” When Peter got back to Jerusalem, some of his old associates, concerned about circumcision, called him on the carpet: “What do you think you’re doing rubbing shoulders with that crowd, eating what is prohibited and ruining our good name?”
Romans 3:25 - God sacrificed Jesus on the altar of the world to clear that world of sin. Having faith in him sets us in the clear. God decided on this course of action in full view of the public—to set the world in the clear with himself through the sacrifice of Jesus, finally taking care of the sins he had so patiently endured. This is not only clear, but it’s now—this is current history! God sets things right. He also makes it possible for us to live in his rightness.
Romans 5:6 - Christ arrives right on time to make this happen. He didn’t, and doesn’t, wait for us to get ready. He presented himself for this sacrificial death when we were far too weak and rebellious to do anything to get ourselves ready. And even if we hadn’t been so weak, we wouldn’t have known what to do anyway. We can understand someone dying for a person worth dying for, and we can understand how someone good and noble could inspire us to selfless sacrifice. But God put his love on the line for us by offering his Son in sacrificial death while we were of no use whatever to him.
1 Timothy 3:1 - If anyone wants to provide leadership in the church, good! But there are preconditions: A leader must be well-thought-of, committed to his wife, cool and collected, accessible, and hospitable. He must know what he’s talking about, not be overfond of wine, not pushy but gentle, not thin-skinned, not money-hungry. He must handle his own affairs well, attentive to his own children and having their respect. For if someone is unable to handle his own affairs, how can he take care of God’s church? He must not be a new believer, lest the position go to his head and the Devil trip him up. Outsiders must think well of him, or else the Devil will figure out a way to lure him into his trap.
Titus 3:8 - I want you to put your foot down. Take a firm stand on these matters so that those who have put their trust in God will concentrate on the essentials that are good for everyone. Stay away from mindless, pointless quarreling over genealogies and fine print in the law code. That gets you nowhere. Warn a quarrelsome person once or twice, but then be done with him. It’s obvious that such a person is out of line, rebellious against God. By persisting in divisiveness he cuts himself off. * * *
Revelation 22:6 - The Angel said to me, “These are dependable and accurate words, every one. The God and Master of the spirits of the prophets sent his Angel to show his servants what must take place, and soon. And tell them, ‘Yes, I’m on my way!’ Blessed be the one who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.”
John 1:29 - The very next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and yelled out, “Here he is, God’s Passover Lamb! He forgives the sins of the world! This is the man I’ve been talking about, ‘the One who comes after me but is really ahead of me.’ I knew nothing about who he was—only this: that my task has been to get Israel ready to recognize him as the God-Revealer. That is why I came here baptizing with water, giving you a good bath and scrubbing sins from your life so you can get a fresh start with God.”
Ephesians 3:8 - And so here I am, preaching and writing about things that are way over my head, the inexhaustible riches and generosity of Christ. My task is to bring out in the open and make plain what God, who created all this in the first place, has been doing in secret and behind the scenes all along. Through followers of Jesus like yourselves gathered in churches, this extraordinary plan of God is becoming known and talked about even among the angels!
Romans 5:9 - Now that we are set right with God by means of this sacrificial death, the consummate blood sacrifice, there is no longer a question of being at odds with God in any way. If, when we were at our worst, we were put on friendly terms with God by the sacrificial death of his Son, now that we’re at our best, just think of how our lives will expand and deepen by means of his resurrection life! Now that we have actually received this amazing friendship with God, we are no longer content to simply say it in plodding prose. We sing and shout our praises to God through Jesus, the Messiah!
John 12:47 - “If anyone hears what I am saying and doesn’t take it seriously, I don’t reject him. I didn’t come to reject the world; I came to save the world. But you need to know that whoever puts me off, refusing to take in what I’m saying, is willfully choosing rejection. The Word, the Word-made-flesh that I have spoken and that I am, that Word and no other is the last word. I’m not making any of this up on my own. The Father who sent me gave me orders, told me what to say and how to say it. And I know exactly what his command produces: real and eternal life. That’s all I have to say. What the Father told me, I tell you.”
John 3:16 - “This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. God didn’t go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again. Anyone who trusts in him is acquitted; anyone who refuses to trust him has long since been under the death sentence without knowing it. And why? Because of that person’s failure to believe in the one-of-a-kind Son of God when introduced to him.
Mark 2:17 - Jesus, overhearing, shot back, “Who needs a doctor: the healthy or the sick? I’m here inviting the sin-sick, not the spiritually-fit.”