1 Timothy 1:15

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!

Cross References

Job 42:6

Therefore I despise myself, and I repent in dust and ashes!

Ezekiel 16:63

Then you will remember, be ashamed, and remain silent when I make atonement for all you have done, declares the sovereign Lord.’”

Matthew 1:21

She will give birth to a son and you will name him Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.”

Matthew 18:10

“See that you do not disdain one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.

Matthew 20:28

just as the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Matthew 9:13

Go and learn what this saying means: ‘I want mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Mark 2:17

When Jesus heard this he said to them, “Those who are healthy don’t need a physician, but those who are sick do. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Luke 15:2

But the Pharisees and the experts in the law were complaining, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.”

Luke 19:10

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”

Luke 5:32

I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

John 1:12

But to all who have received him – those who believe in his name – he has given the right to become God’s children

John 1:29

On the next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

John 12:47

If anyone hears my words and does not obey them, I do not judge him. For I have not come to judge the world, but to save the world.

John 3:36

The one who believes in the Son has eternal life. The one who rejects the Son will not see life, but God’s wrath remains on him.

Acts 11:1

Now the apostles and the brothers who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles too had accepted the word of God.

Acts 11:18

When they heard this, they ceased their objections and praised God, saying, “So then, God has granted the repentance that leads to life even to the Gentiles.”

Acts 3:26

God raised up his servant and sent him first to you, to bless you by turning each one of you from your iniquities.”

Romans 11:14

if somehow I could provoke my people to jealousy and save some of them.

Romans 5:6

For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

1 Corinthians 15:9

For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

Ephesians 3:8

To me – less than the least of all the saints – this grace was given, to proclaim to the Gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ

1 Timothy 1:13

even though I was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor, and an arrogant man. But I was treated with mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief,

1 Timothy 1:19

To do this you must hold firmly to faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and so have suffered shipwreck in regard to the faith.

1 Timothy 3:1

This saying is trustworthy: “If someone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a good work.”

1 Timothy 4:9

This saying is trustworthy and deserves full acceptance.

1 Timothy 6:13

I charge you before God who gives life to all things and Christ Jesus who made his good confession before Pontius Pilate,

2 Timothy 2:11

This saying is trustworthy: If we died with him, we will also live with him.

Titus 3:8

This saying is trustworthy, and I want you to insist on such truths, so that those who have placed their faith in God may be intent on engaging in good works. These things are good and beneficial for all people.

Hebrews 7:25

So he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them.

1 John 3:5

And you know that Jesus was revealed to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.

1 John 3:8

The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was revealed: to destroy the works of the devil.

1 John 5:11

And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

Revelation 21:5

And the one seated on the throne said: “Look! I am making all things new!” Then he said to me, “Write it down, because these words are reliable and true.”

Revelation 22:6

Then the angel said to me, “These words are reliable and true. The Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, has sent his angel to show his servants what must happen soon.”

Revelation 5:9

They were singing a new song: “You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals because you were killed, and at the cost of your own blood you have purchased for God persons from every tribe, language, people, and nation.