1 Timothy 3:16

Williams

1 Timothy 3:16

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

Without

Hebrews 7:7

The mystery

Manifest

1 John 3:5

Justified

Seen

Preached

Colossians 1:27

Believed

Acts 14:27

Colossians 1:6

Revelation 7:9

Received

General references

Mark 12:11

Luke 18:19

John 10:30

Bible References

Without

Now beyond any contradiction, it is always the inferior that is blessed by the superior.

The mystery

but they must continue to hold the open secret of faith with a clear conscience.

He answered: "It is you and not they who are granted the privilege of knowing the secrets of the kingdom of heaven.

To Him who can make you strong in accordance with the good news I bring and in accordance with the message preached about Jesus Christ, in accordance with the uncovering of the secret which for ages past had not been told,

rather, we are setting forth a wisdom that came from God, once a covered secret but now uncovered, which God marked off as His plan for bringing us to glory.

He has made known to us the secret of His will, which is in accordance with His purpose which He planned in Christ,

and how by revelation the secret was made known to me, as I have briefly written before.

and for me that a message may be given me when I open my lips, so that I may boldly make known the open secret of the good news,

that their hearts may be encouraged, by having been knit together in love and by having atoned to the full assurance of understanding, so that they may finally reach the fullest knowledge of the open secret, Christ Himself,

For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work, but only until he who is holding it back has been gotten out of the way.

On her forehead was written a name with a symbolical meaning, "Mighty Babylon, the mother of prostitutes and of earth's abominations."

Manifest

You know that He appeared to take our sins away, and that there is no sin in Him.

Justified

And as soon as Jesus was baptized, He at once went up out of the water, and look! the heavens opened, and John saw the Spirit of God coming down like a dove upon Him,

Then John gave this testimony: "I saw the Spirit coming down from heaven like a dove, and it remained on Him.

"When the Helper comes whom I will send from the Father to you, the Spirit of truth that comes from the Father, He will testify to me.

"And when He comes, He will bring conviction to worldly people about sin and uprightness and judgment;

I mean Jesus whom God raised from the dead, to which fact we are all witnesses,

about His Son, who on the physical side became a descendant of David, and on the holy, spiritual side

For Christ Himself, once for all, died for our sins, the Innocent for the guilty to bring us to God, being put to death in physical form but made alive in the Spirit,

He is the One who came through water and blood -- Jesus Christ; not through water only but through water and blood. The Spirit also testifies to this, because the Spirit is truth.

Seen

Then the devil left Him, and angels came and continued to wait upon Him.

Now there had been a great earthquake. For an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and went and rolled the boulder back and remained sitting upon it.

And He stayed in the desert forty days, while He was being tempted by Satan; yea, He was with the wild beasts, but the angels continued to wait upon Him.

And when they went into the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a white robe sitting at the right; and they were utterly astounded.

But the angel said to them: "Stop being afraid, for now I bring you good tidings of great joy which is to be for all the people;

Omitted Text.

And as they were being perplexed about this, two men in dazzling robes suddenly took their stand beside them.

and saw seated there two angels in white robes, one at the head, one at the feet, where Jesus' body had lain.

And while they were gazing after Him into heaven, two men dressed in white suddenly stood beside them,

so that the many phases of God's wisdom may now through the church be made known to the rulers and authorities in heaven,

It was made known to them that they were serving not themselves but you, in their searching for these things that have already been told to you by those who through the Holy Spirit sent from heaven brought you the good news. The angels long to take a peep into these things.

Preached

a light of revelation to the heathen, and a glory to your people Israel."

Then Peter opened his mouth and said, "Now I really see that God shows no partiality,

Then Paul and Barnabas courageously spoke out, "God's message had to be spoken to you Jews first, but since you continue to thrust it from you and since you show yourselves unworthy to receive eternal life, now and here we turn to the heathen.

But there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord is over them all, because He is infinitely kind to all who call upon Him.

for He who had been at work in Peter for his apostleship to the Jews had been at work in me too for the apostleship to the heathen --

which in the earlier ages, so different from the present, was not made known to mankind as fully as now, but through the Spirit it has been revealed to His Holy apostles and prophets --

to whom God has chosen to make known how glorious are the riches of this open secret among the heathen, namely, Christ in you the hope of your glorification.

Believed

On arriving there they called the church together, and in detail reported to them all that God had done through them as instruments, and how He had opened to the heathen the door of faith.

which reached you, and since it is bearing fruit and growing among you, just as it is all over the world, from the day you first heard of God's favor and in reality came to know it,

After this I looked, and there was a vast throng that no one could count from every nation, tribe, people, and tongue, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands,

Received

So the Lord Jesus, after He had spoken to them, was caught up into heaven and took His seat at God's right hand.

And while He was blessing them, He parted from them, and was taken up to heaven.

Suppose you were to see the Son of Man going back where He was before?

because He was sure that the Father had put everything into His hands, and that He had come from God and was going back to God,

I did come from the Father and I have come into the world. Now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father."

So now, Father, glorify me up there in your presence just as you did before the world existed.

I wrote my first volume, Theophilus, about all that Jesus did and taught from the beginning

Concerning this the Scripture says: "He led a host of captives, when He went up on high, and granted gifts to men."

He is the reflection of God's glory and the perfect representation of His being, and continues to uphold the universe by His mighty word. After He had procured man's purification from sins, He took His seat at the right hand of God's majesty,

Now the main point in what I am saying is this: We have such a High Priest as this, one who has taken His seat at the right hand of God's majestic throne in heaven

keeping our eyes on Jesus, the perfect leader and example of faith, who, instead of the joy which lay before Him, endured the cross with no regard for its shame, and since has taken His seat at the right hand of the throne of God.

who has gone to heaven and is now at God's right hand, with angels, heavenly authorities and powers made subject to Him.

General references

This is the work of the Lord, and seems wonderful to us'?"

Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me perfectly good? No one is perfectly good but God Himself.

The Father and I are one."