1 Timothy 3:16

Paul cites a hymn confessing the great mystery of godliness: Christ revealed in the flesh and taken up in glory. It is a rich summary of the person and work of Christ.

Cross-references · 40

• John 1:14The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.
• Heb 1:3His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
• Mark 16:19So then the Lord, after he had spoken to them, was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.
• Rom 16:25—
• 1 Jn 5:6–8This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.
• 1 Jn 1:2(and the life was revealed, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the life, the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was revealed to us);
• Luke 24:4While they were greatly perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling clothing.
• Phil 2:6–8who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,
• Col 1:23if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.
• Col 1:27to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory;
• Isa 9:6For to us a child is born. To us a son is given; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
• John 1:1–2In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
• 1 Pet 1:12To them it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to you, they ministered these things, which now have been announced to you through those who preached the Good News to you by the Holy Spirit sent out from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.
• 1 Pet 3:22who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.
• Eph 3:3–10how that by revelation the mystery was made known to me, as I wrote before in few words,
• Col 2:2that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,
• Rev 1:17–18When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. He laid his right hand on me, saying, “Don’t be afraid. I am the first and the last,
• Col 1:6which has come to you; even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth;
• 1 Cor 2:7But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory,
• Matt 1:23“Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall give birth to a son. They shall call his name Immanuel”; which is, being interpreted, “God with us.”
• Matt 3:16Jesus, when he was baptized, went up directly from the water: and behold, the heavens were opened to him. He saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming on him.
• Luke 22:43An angel from heaven appeared to him, strengthening him.
• Heb 12:2looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
• 1 Tim 3:9holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.
• Eph 6:19on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in opening my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the Good News,
• 1 Pet 1:20who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in this last age for your sake,
• 1 Jn 3:5You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and in him is no sin.
• John 20:12and she saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head, and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.
• Gal 4:4But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,
• Eph 1:9making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him
• Heb 2:9–13But we see him who has been made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for everyone.
• Col 1:16–18For by him all things were created, in the heavens and on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and for him.
• Rev 7:9After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could count, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.
• Rom 10:18But I say, didn’t they hear? Yes, most certainly, “Their sound went out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.”
• 1 Cor 15:47The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven.
• Acts 2:32–36This Jesus God raised up, to which we all are witnesses.
• Acts 20:28Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.
• Heb 7:7But without any dispute the lesser is blessed by the greater.
• Acts 10:34Peter opened his mouth and said, “Truly I perceive that God doesn’t show favoritism;
• Rom 9:5of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen.

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