1 Timothy 2:4

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

who desires everyone to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Cross References

Isaiah 45:22

Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other.

Isaiah 49:6

he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the survivors of Israel; I will give you as a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth.”

Isaiah 53:11

Out of his anguish he shall see light; he shall find satisfaction through his knowledge. The righteous one, my servant, shall make many righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities.

Isaiah 55:1

Ho, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and you that have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

Ezekiel 18:23

Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked, says the Lord God, and not rather that they should turn from their ways and live?

Ezekiel 18:32

For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone, says the Lord God. Turn, then, and live.

Ezekiel 33:11

Say to them, As I live, says the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from their ways and live; turn back, turn back from your evil ways; for why will you die, O house of Israel?

Habakkuk 2:14

But the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.

Matthew 28:19

Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

Mark 16:15

And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the good news to the whole creation.

Luke 1:77

to give knowledge of salvation to his people by the forgiveness of their sins.

Luke 14:23

Then the master said to the slave, ‘Go out into the roads and lanes, and compel people to come in, so that my house may be filled.

Luke 24:47

and that repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

John 14:6

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

John 17:17

Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.

John 6:37

Everything that the Father gives me will come to me, and anyone who comes to me I will never drive away;

Romans 11:14

in order to make my own people jealous, and thus save some of them.

1 Timothy 4:10

For to this end we toil and struggle, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of those who believe.

2 Timothy 2:25

correcting opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant that they will repent and come to know the truth,

2 Timothy 3:7

who are always being instructed and can never arrive at a knowledge of the truth.

Titus 1:1

Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the sake of the faith of God's elect and the knowledge of the truth that is in accordance with godliness,

Titus 2:11

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all,

Hebrews 10:26

For if we willfully persist in sin after having received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

James 3:14

But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not be boastful and false to the truth.

2 Peter 3:9

The Lord is not slow about his promise, as some think of slowness, but is patient with you, not wanting any to perish, but all to come to repentance.

2 John 1:1

The elder to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth, and not only I but also all who know the truth,

Revelation 14:6

Then I saw another angel flying in midheaven, with an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who live on the earth—to every nation and tribe and language and people.