but has in due time manifested His word through preaching, which was committed to me according to the commandment of God our Savior;
Parallel translations
- WEB but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior;
- KJV But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Saviour;
- BSB In His own time He has made His word evident in the proclamation entrusted to me by the command of God our Savior.
- NASB but at the proper time revealed His word in the proclamation with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior;
- NLT And now at just the right time he has revealed this message, which we announce to everyone. It is by the command of God our Savior that I have been entrusted with this work for him.
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Quick answer
In His appointed time God made His word known through the gospel message entrusted to Paul. It matters because the proclamation of the gospel is God's chosen means of revealing His saving plan.
Overview
What was promised before time has now been revealed in history through the preaching committed to Paul by God's command. Calling God 'our Savior' (a title Paul also applies to Christ in this letter) highlights the unity of the Father and the Son in the work of salvation. The eternal purpose of verse 2 becomes a public message proclaimed to the world.
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- 1 Tim 1:11according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.
- Titus 3:4–6But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love toward mankind appeared,
- 1 Tim 1:1Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ according to the commandment of God our Savior and the Lord Jesus Christ our hope;
- Titus 2:10not stealing, but showing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God, our Savior, in all things.
- Titus 2:13looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ;
- Gal 4:4But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,
- Mark 13:10The Good News must first be preached to all the nations.
- Acts 10:36The word which he sent to the children of Israel, preaching good news of peace by Jesus Christ — he is Lord of all —
- 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;
- 2 Tim 1:10–11but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Good News.
- Rom 10:14–15How 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?
- 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.
- Isa 45:15Most certainly you are a God who has hidden yourself, God of Israel, the Savior.’”
- 1 Cor 9:17For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.
- Hab 2:3For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won’t delay.
- 1 Tim 2:5–7For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
- 1 Th 2:4But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.
- 1 Tim 4:10For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have set our trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.
- Mark 16:15He said to them, “Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation.
- Eph 2:17He came and preached peace to you who were far off and to those who were near.
- 1 Tim 2:3For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior;
- Isa 45:21Declare and present it. Yes, let them take counsel together. Who has shown this from ancient time? Who has declared it of old? Haven’t I, Yahweh? There is no other God besides me, a just God and a Savior; There is no one besides me.
- Rom 5:6For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
- Rom 15:19in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of God’s Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and around as far as to Illyricum, I have fully preached the Good News of Christ;
- Rom 16:26—
- Dan 9:24Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
- Isa 12:2Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.”
- Phil 1:13so that it became evident to the whole palace guard, and to all the rest, that my bonds are in Christ;
- Dan 8:23In the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors have come to the full, a king of fierce face, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.
- Acts 17:26He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,
- Eph 3:5–8which in other generations was not made known to the children of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit;
- Luke 1:47My spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior,
- Dan 11:27As for both these kings, their hearts shall be to do mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table: but it shall not prosper; for yet the end shall be at the time appointed.
- Rev 14:16He who sat on the cloud thrust his sickle on the earth, and the earth was reaped.
- Eph 1:10to an administration of the fullness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things on the earth, in him;
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