1 Timothy 2:5

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Summary

1 Timothy 2:5

For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;

One god

Ephesians 4:6

And

The man

Revelation 1:13

General references

James 2:19

Bible References

One god

"The first," answered Jesus, "is--'Hear, O Israel; the Lord our God is the one Lord;

And the Immortal Life is this--to know thee the one true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou has sent as thy Messenger.

Or can it be that God is the God only of the Jews? Is not he also the God of the Gentiles?

For no distinction is made between the Jew and the Greek, for all have the same Lord, and he is bountiful to all who invoke him.

Yet for us there is only one God, the Father, from whom all things come (and for him we live), and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things come (and through him we live).

Now mediation implies more than one person, but God is one only.

There is but one God and Father of all--the God who is over all, pervades all, and is in all.

And

And that is why he is able to save perfectly those who come to God through him, living for ever, as he does, to intercede of their behalf.

But Jesus, as we see, has obtained a ministry as far excelling theirs, as the Covenant of which he is the intermediary, based, as it is, on better promises, excels the former Covenant.

And that is why he is the intermediary of a new Covenant; in order that, as a death has taken place to effect a deliverance from the offenses committed under the first Covenant, those who have received the Call may obtain the eternal inheritance promised to them.

to Jesus, the intermediary of a new Covenant, and to the Sprinkled Blood that tells of better things than the blood of Abel.

The man

'Behold! the virgin shall be with child and shall give birth to a son, And they will give him the name Immanuel'--a word which means 'God is with us.'

"Have no fear," the angel said. "For I bring you good news of a great joy in store for all the nation.

And the Word became Man, and dwelt among us, (We saw his glory--the glory of the Only Son sent from the Father), full of love and truth.

That is what is meant by the words-'Adam, the first man, became a human being'; the last Adam became a Life-giving spirit.

Though the divine nature was his from the beginning, yet he did not look upon equality with God as above all things to be clung to,

No; a writer has declared somewhere-- 'What is Man that thou shouldst remember him? Or a Son of Man that thou shouldst regard him?

and in the midst of the lamps one 'like a man, in a robe reaching to his feet,' and with a golden girdle across his breast.

General references

It is a part of your Faith, is it not, that there is one God? Good; yet even the demons have that faith, and tremble at the thought.