1 Timothy 1:16

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1 Timothy 1:16

But I received mercy for this reason, so that in me, the worst of them, Christ Jesus might demonstrate His extraordinary patience as an example to those who would believe in Him for eternal life.

1 Timothy 1:13

one who was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and an arrogant man. But I received mercy because I acted out of ignorance in unbelief.

Ephesians 2:7

so that in the coming ages He might display the immeasurable riches of His grace through His kindness to us in Christ Jesus.

Exodus 34:8

Moses immediately bowed down to the ground and worshiped.

Numbers 23:3

Balaam said to Balak, “Stay here by your burnt offering while I am gone. Maybe the Lord will meet with me. I will tell you whatever He reveals to me.” So he went to a barren hill.

2 Chronicles 33:9-13

So Manasseh caused Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to stray so that they did worse evil than the nations the Lord had destroyed before the Israelites.

His prayer and how God granted his request, and all his sin and unfaithfulness and the sites where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and carved images before he humbled himself, they are written in the Records of Hozai.

Psalm 25:11

Because of Your name, Yahweh,
forgive my sin, for it is great.

Isaiah 1:18

“Come, let us discuss this,”
says the Lord.
“Though your sins are like scarlet,
they will be as white as snow;
though they are as red as crimson,
they will be like wool.

Isaiah 43:25

“It is I who sweep away your transgressions
for My own sake
and remember your sins no more.

Isaiah 55:7

Let the wicked one abandon his way
and the sinful one his thoughts;
let him return to the Lord,
so He may have compassion on him,
and to our God, for He will freely forgive.

Luke 7:47

Therefore I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven; that’s why she loved much. But the one who is forgiven little, loves little.”

Luke 15:10

I tell you, in the same way, there is joy in the presence of God’s angels over one sinner who repents.”

Luke 18:13-14

“But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even raise his eyes to heaven but kept striking his chest and saying, ‘God, turn Your wrath from me—a sinner!’

Luke 19:7-9

All who saw it began to complain, “He’s gone to lodge with a sinful man!”

Luke 23:43

And He said to him, “I assure you: Today you will be with Me in paradise.”

John 3:15-16

so that everyone who believes in Him will have eternal life.

John 3:36

The one who believes in the Son has eternal life, but the one who refuses to believe in the Son will not see life; instead, the wrath of God remains on him.

John 5:24

“I assure you: Anyone who hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment but has passed from death to life.

John 6:37

Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never cast out.

John 6:40

For this is the will of My Father: that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”

John 6:54

Anyone who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day,

John 20:31

But these are written so that you may believe Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and by believing you may have life in His name.

Acts 13:39

and everyone who believes in Him is justified from everything that you could not be justified from through the law of Moses.

Romans 2:4-5

Or do you despise the riches of His kindness, restraint, and patience, not recognizing that God’s kindness is intended to lead you to repentance?

Romans 5:20-21

The law came along to multiply the trespass. But where sin multiplied, grace multiplied even more

Romans 6:23

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 15:4

For whatever was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that we may have hope through endurance and through the encouragement from the Scriptures.

2 Corinthians 4:1

Therefore, since we have this ministry because we were shown mercy, we do not give up.

Ephesians 1:6

to the praise of His glorious grace that He favored us with in the Beloved.

Ephesians 1:12

so that we who had already put our hope in the Messiah might bring praise to His glory.

2 Thessalonians 1:10

in that day when He comes to be glorified by His saints and to be admired by all those who have believed, because our testimony among you was believed.

Hebrews 7:25

Therefore, He is always able to save those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to intercede for them.

1 Peter 3:20

who in the past were disobedient, when God patiently waited in the days of Noah while an ark was being prepared. In it a few—that is, eight people—were saved through water.

2 Peter 3:9

The Lord does not delay His promise, as some understand delay, but is patient with you, not wanting any to perish but all to come to repentance.

2 Peter 3:15

Also, regard the patience of our Lord as an opportunity for salvation, just as our dear brother Paul has written to you according to the wisdom given to him.

1 John 5:11-12

And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.

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Summary

1 Timothy 1:16

Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.

I obtained

1 Timothy 1:13

2 Corinthians 4:1

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I obtained

one who was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and an arrogant man. But I received mercy because I acted out of ignorance in unbelief.

Therefore, since we have this ministry because we were shown mercy, we do not give up.

All

Moses immediately bowed down to the ground and worshiped.

Or do you despise the riches of His kindness, restraint, and patience, not recognizing that God’s kindness is intended to lead you to repentance?

who in the past were disobedient, when God patiently waited in the days of Noah while an ark was being prepared. In it a few—that is, eight people

—were saved through water.

The Lord does not delay His promise, as some understand delay, but is patient with you, not wanting any to perish but all to come to repentance.

For a

So Manasseh caused Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to stray so that they did worse evil than the nations the Lord had destroyed before the Israelites.

Let the wicked one abandon his way
and the sinful one his thoughts;
let him return to the Lord,
so He may have compassion on him,
and to our God, for He will freely forgive.

Therefore I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven; that’s why she loved much. But the one who is forgiven little, loves little.”

I tell you, in the same way, there is joy in the presence of God’s angels over one sinner who repents.”

“But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even raise his eyes to heaven but kept striking his chest

and saying, ‘God, turn Your wrath from me

—a sinner!’

All who saw it began to complain, “He’s gone to lodge with a sinful man!”

And He said to him, “I assure you: Today you will be with Me in paradise.”

Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never cast out.

and everyone who believes in Him is justified from everything that you could not be justified from through the law of Moses.

The law came along to multiply the trespass. But where sin multiplied, grace multiplied even more

For whatever was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that we may have hope through endurance and through the encouragement from the Scriptures.

Therefore, He is always able to save those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to intercede for them.

General references

But so you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins,”

He told the paralytic,

I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save the lost.”

And this is the promise that He Himself made to us: eternal life.