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 1:13I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a violent man; yet because I had acted in ignorance and unbelief, I was shown mercy.
• Eph 2:7in order that in the coming ages He might display the surpassing riches of His grace, demonstrated by His kindness to us in Christ Jesus.
• Ps 25:11For the sake of Your name, O LORD, forgive my iniquity, for it is great.
• 2 Pet 3:9The Lord is not slow in keeping His promise as some understand slowness, but is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish but everyone to come to repentance.
• 1 Jn 5:11–12And this is that testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.
• Luke 7:47Therefore I tell you, because her many sins have been forgiven, she has loved much. But he who has been forgiven little loves little.”
• 2 Pet 3:15Consider also that our Lord’s patience brings salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom God gave him.
• John 3:36Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. Whoever rejects the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.”
• John 6:54Whoever 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 so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in His name.
• 1 Pet 3:20who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In the ark a few people, only eight souls, were saved through water.
• Isa 43:25I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.
• Rom 6:23For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
• Acts 13:39Through Him everyone who believes is justified from everything you could not be justified from by the law of Moses.
• Isa 55:7Let the wicked man forsake his own way and the unrighteous man his own thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon.
• John 6:40For it is My Father’s will that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”
• John 3:15–16that everyone who believes in Him may have eternal life.
• 2 Chr 33:9–13So Manasseh led the people of Judah and Jerusalem astray, so that they did greater evil than the nations that the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.
• Isa 1:18“Come now, let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are as red as crimson, they will become like wool.
• John 5:24Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment. Indeed, he has crossed over from death to life.
• Eph 1:12in order that we, who were the first to hope in Christ, would be for the praise of His glory.
• Rom 15:4For everything that was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope.
• Num 23:3“Stay here by your burnt offering while I am gone,” Balaam said to Balak. “Perhaps the LORD will meet with me. And whatever He reveals to me, I will tell you.” So Balaam went off to a barren height,
• Rom 5:20–21The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,
• Luke 19:7–9And all who saw this began to grumble, saying, “He has gone to be the guest of a sinful man!”
• Luke 23:43And Jesus said to him, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.”
• 2 Chr 33:19His prayer and how God received his plea, as well as all his sin and unfaithfulness, and the sites where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself, they are indeed written in the Records of the Seers.
• John 6:37Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never drive away.
• Heb 7:25Therefore He is able to save completely those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to intercede for them.
• Luke 18:13–14But the tax collector stood at a distance, unwilling even to lift up his eyes to heaven. Instead, he beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner!’
• Rom 2:4–5Or do you disregard the riches of His kindness, tolerance, and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness leads you to repentance?
• Eph 1:6to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One.
• Luke 15:10In the same way, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of God’s angels over one sinner who repents.”
• 2 Th 1:10on the day He comes to be glorified in His saints and regarded with wonder by all who have believed, including you who have believed our testimony.
• 2 Cor 4:1Therefore, since God in His mercy has given us this ministry, we do not lose heart.
• Exod 34:8Moses immediately bowed down to the ground and worshiped.

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