1 Timothy 1:16

Paul received mercy so that his conversion would display Christ's perfect patience as a pattern for future believers. It shows God saves to put His grace on display.

Cross-references · 36

• 1 Tim 1:13although I was before a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
• Eph 2:7that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus;
• Ps 25:11For your name’s sake, Yahweh, pardon my iniquity, for it is great.
• 2 Pet 3:9The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
• 1 Jn 5:11–12The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
• Luke 7:47Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little.”
• 2 Pet 3:15Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you;
• John 3:36One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”
• John 6:54He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
• John 20:31but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.
• 1 Pet 3:20who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.
• Isa 43:25I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.
• Rom 6:23For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
• Acts 13:39and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
• Isa 55:7Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will freely pardon.
• John 6:40This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”
• John 3:15–16that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
• 2 Chr 33:9–13Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that they did more evil than the nations whom Yahweh destroyed before the children of Israel did.
• Isa 1:18“Come now, and let us reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
• John 5:24“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
• Eph 1:12to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ:
• Rom 15:4For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
• Num 23:3Balaam said to Balak, “Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go. Perhaps Yahweh will come to meet me. Whatever he shows me I will tell you.” He went to a bare height.
• Rom 5:20–21The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;
• Luke 19:7–9When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, “He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner.”
• Luke 23:43Jesus said to him, “Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”
• 2 Chr 33:19His prayer also, and how God was entreated of him, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places, and set up the Asherah poles and the engraved images, before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai.
• John 6:37All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out.
• Heb 7:25Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.
• Luke 18:13–14But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’
• Rom 2:4–5Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
• Eph 1:6to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved,
• Luke 15:10Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.”
• 2 Th 1:10when he comes to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired among all those who have believed (because our testimony to you was believed) in that day.
• 2 Cor 4:1Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.
• Exod 34:8Moses hurried and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped.

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