1 Timothy 2:7

Paul affirms his appointment as a preacher, apostle, and teacher of the Gentiles. It underscores the divine authority behind his gospel ministry.

Cross-references · 26

• Acts 9:15“Go!” said the Lord. “This man is My chosen instrument to carry My name before the Gentiles and their kings, and before the people of Israel.
• 2 Tim 1:11to which I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher.
• Rom 9:1I speak the truth in Christ; I am not lying, as confirmed by my conscience in the Holy Spirit.
• Eph 3:7–8I became a servant of this gospel by the gift of God’s grace, given me through the working of His power.
• Rom 15:16to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
• Eccl 12:8–10“Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher. “Everything is futile!”
• Gal 1:16to reveal His Son in me so that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not rush to consult with flesh and blood,
• Rom 11:13I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry
• Gal 2:9And recognizing the grace that I had been given, James, Cephas, and John—those reputed to be pillars—gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, so that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcised.
• Gal 1:20I assure you before God that what I am writing to you is no lie.
• Eccl 1:12I, the Teacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
• Eccl 1:1–2These are the words of the Teacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem:
• Acts 14:27When they arrived, they gathered the church together and reported all that God had done through them, and how He had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.
• Rom 10:14How then can they call on the One in whom they have not believed? And how can they believe in the One of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone to preach?
• Eccl 7:27“Behold,” says the Teacher, “I have discovered this by adding one thing to another to find an explanation.
• John 7:35At this, the Jews said to one another, “Where does He intend to go that we will not find Him? Will He go where the Jews are dispersed among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?
• Ps 111:7The works of His hands are truth and justice; all His precepts are trustworthy.
• Acts 22:21Then He said to me, ‘Go! I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’”
• 1 Tim 1:11–12that agrees with the glorious gospel of the blessed God, with which I have been entrusted.
• 2 Pet 2:5if He did not spare the ancient world when He brought the flood on its ungodly people, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, among the eight;
• 2 Cor 11:31The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is forever worthy of praise, knows that I am not lying.
• Acts 26:20First to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, then to everyone in the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, I declared that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds worthy of their repentance.
• Gal 3:9So those who have faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.
• Rom 1:9God, whom I serve with my spirit in preaching the gospel of His Son, is my witness how constantly I remember you
• Acts 26:17–18I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them
• Gal 2:16know that a man is not justified by works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have believed in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.

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