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Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
1 Timothy 2:6 · King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB who gave himself as a ransom for all; the testimony in its own times;
  • BSB who gave Himself as a ransom for all—the testimony that was given at just the right time.
  • NKJV who gave Himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time,
  • NASB who gave Himself as a ransom for all, the testimony given at the proper time.
  • NLT He gave his life to purchase freedom for everyone. This is the message God gave to the world at just the right time.

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Quick answer

Christ gave himself as a ransom for all, the testimony given at the proper time. It points to the cross as the price paid for our redemption.

Overview

Paul describes Christ's self-giving as a 'ransom for all,' the heart of his atoning work. The 'testimony in its own times' marks this as God's appointed revelation in history. The verse declares the gospel that Christ's death secures redemption for those who come to Him.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 31

  • Matt 20:28Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
  • 1 Pet 3:18For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
  • 1 Jn 2:1–2My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
  • Rev 1:5And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
  • Gal 4:4But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
  • 1 Jn 4:10Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
  • 1 Cor 1:6Even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:
  • Titus 2:14Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
  • Eph 5:2And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
  • Job 33:24Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.
  • 1 Tim 6:15Which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;
  • 2 Cor 5:21For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
  • 1 Pet 2:24Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
  • Titus 1:3But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Saviour;
  • John 10:15As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
  • 2 Cor 5:14–15For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
  • 1 Pet 1:18–19Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
  • John 6:51I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
  • Mark 10:45For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
  • Isa 53:6All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
  • 1 Jn 5:11–12And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
  • Rev 5:9And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;
  • 2 Th 1:10When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.
  • 2 Tim 1:8Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;
  • Rom 16:26But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith:
  • Eph 1:7In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
  • Heb 9:12Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
  • Eph 1:9–10Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:
  • Eph 1:17That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
  • Rom 5:6For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
  • Eph 3:5Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;

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Christ at the center

There is 'one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself a ransom for all' — the mystery of godliness, God manifest in the flesh.

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