1Tim 2:4 Cross References
1 Timothy 2:4
4: for he wants everyone to be saved and to understand the truth.
Ezekiel 18:32
- I don't want you to die, says the Sovereign LORD. Turn back and live!
Ezekiel 18:23
- "Do you think, asks the Sovereign LORD, that I like to see wicked people die? Of course not! I only want them to turn from their wicked ways and live.
2 Peter 3:9
- The Lord isn't really being slow about his promise to return, as some people think. No, he is being patient for your sake. He does not want anyone to perish, so he is giving more time for everyone to repent.
Titus 2:11
- For the grace of God has been revealed, bringing salvation to all people.
John 3:15
- so that everyone who believes in me will have eternal life.
- "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.
- God did not send his Son into the world to condemn it, but to save it.
Ezekiel 33:11
- As surely as I live, says the Sovereign LORD, I take no pleasure in the death of wicked people. I only want them to turn from their wicked ways so they can live. Turn! Turn from your wickedness, O people of Israel! Why should you die?
2 Timothy 2:25
- They should gently teach those who oppose the truth. Perhaps God will change those people's hearts, and they will believe the truth.
Romans 10:12
- Jew and Gentile are the same in this respect. They all have the same Lord, who generously gives his riches to all who ask for them.
- For "Anyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."
- But how can they call on him to save them unless they believe in him? And how can they believe in him if they have never heard about him? And how can they hear about him unless someone tells them?
- And how will anyone go and tell them without being sent? That is what the Scriptures mean when they say, "How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!"
1 Timothy 4:10
- We work hard and suffer much in order that people will believe the truth, for our hope is in the living God, who is the Savior of all people, and particularly of those who believe.
Luke 24:47
- With my authority, take this message of repentance to all the nations, beginning in Jerusalem: 'There is forgiveness of sins for all who turn to me.'
Isaiah 55:1
- "Is anyone thirsty? Come and drink--even if you have no money! Come, take your choice of wine or milk--it's all free!
John 14:6
- Jesus told him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.
Matthew 28:19
- Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Isaiah 49:6
- He says, "You will do more than restore the people of Israel to me. I will make you a light to the Gentiles, and you will bring my salvation to the ends of the earth."
Luke 14:23
- So his master said, 'Go out into the country lanes and behind the hedges and urge anyone you find to come, so that the house will be full.
2 Corinthians 5:17
- What this means is that those who become Christians become new persons. They are not the same anymore, for the old life is gone. A new life has begun!
- All this newness of life is from God, who brought us back to himself through what Christ did. And God has given us the task of reconciling people to him.
- For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people's sins against them. This is the wonderful message he has given us to tell others.
Isaiah 45:22
- Let all the world look to me for salvation! For I am God; there is no other.
Luke 1:77
- You will tell his people how to find salvation through forgiveness of their sins.
Romans 3:29
- After all, God is not the God of the Jews only, is he? Isn't he also the God of the Gentiles? Of course he is.
- There is only one God, and there is only one way of being accepted by him. He makes people right with himself only by faith, whether they are Jews or Gentiles.
Revelation 14:6
- And I saw another angel flying through the heavens, carrying the everlasting Good News to preach to the people who belong to this world--to every nation, tribe, language, and people.
John 17:17
- Make them pure and holy by teaching them your words of truth.
Mark 16:15
- And then he told them, "Go into all the world and preach the Good News to everyone, everywhere.
Isaiah 53:11
- When he sees all that is accomplished by his anguish, he will be satisfied. And because of what he has experienced, my righteous servant will make it possible for many to be counted righteous, for he will bear all their sins.
John 6:37
- However, those the Father has given me will come to me, and I will never reject them.
Hebrews 10:26
- Dear friends, if we deliberately continue sinning after we have received a full knowledge of the truth, there is no other sacrifice that will cover these sins.
Habakkuk 2:14
- For the time will come when all the earth will be filled, as the waters fill the sea, with an awareness of the glory of the LORD.
Titus 1:1
- This letter is from Paul, a slave of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ. I have been sent to bring faith to those God has chosen and to teach them to know the truth that shows them how to live godly lives.
2 Timothy 3:7
- Such women are forever following new teachings, but they never understand the truth.
1 Thessalonians 2:15
- For some of the Jews had killed their own prophets, and some even killed the Lord Jesus. Now they have persecuted us and driven us out. They displease God and oppose everyone
- by trying to keep us from preaching the Good News to the Gentiles, for fear some might be saved. By doing this, they continue to pile up their sins. But the anger of God has caught up with them at last.