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 9:15But the Lord said to him, “Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.
• 2 Tim 1:11For this, I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
• Rom 9:1I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit,
• Eph 3:7–8of which I was made a servant, according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.
• Rom 15:16that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
• Eccl 12:8–10“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher. “All is vanity!”
• Gal 1:16to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn’t immediately confer with flesh and blood,
• Rom 11:13For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;
• Gal 2:9and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, they who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision.
• Gal 1:20Now about the things which I write to you, behold, before God, I’m not lying.
• Eccl 1:12I, the Preacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
• Eccl 1:1–2The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem:
• Acts 14:27When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.
• Rom 10:14How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher?
• Eccl 7:27“Behold, I have found this,” says the Preacher, “to one another, to find out the scheme;
• John 7:35The Jews therefore said among themselves, “Where will this man go that we won’t find him? Will he go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?
• Ps 111:7The works of his hands are truth and justice. All his precepts are sure.
• Acts 22:21“He said to me, ‘Depart, for I will send you out far from here to the Gentiles.’”
• 1 Tim 1:11–12according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.
• 2 Pet 2:5and didn’t spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;
• 2 Cor 11:31The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, he who is blessed forever more, knows that I don’t lie.
• Acts 26:20but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.
• Gal 3:9So then, those who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.
• Rom 1:9For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,
• Acts 26:17–18delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you,
• Gal 2:16yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

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