2Tim 1:9 Cross References

2 Timothy 1:9

9: It is God who saved us and chose us to live a holy life. He did this not because we deserved it, but because that was his plan long before the world began--to show his love and kindness to us through Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 2:8

  1. God saved you by his special favor when you believed. And you can't take credit for this; it is a gift from God.
  2. Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it.

Titus 3:4

  1. But then God our Savior showed us his kindness and love.
  2. He saved us, not because of the good things we did, but because of his mercy. He washed away our sins and gave us a new life through the Holy Spirit.

1 Peter 2:20

  1. Of course, you get no credit for being patient if you are beaten for doing wrong. But if you suffer for doing right and are patient beneath the blows, God is pleased with you.
  2. This suffering is all part of what God has called you to. Christ, who suffered for you, is your example. Follow in his steps.

Romans 16:25

  1. God is able to make you strong, just as the Good News says. It is the message about Jesus Christ and his plan for you Gentiles, a plan kept secret from the beginning of time.

Romans 11:5

  1. It is the same today, for not all the Jews have turned away from God. A few are being saved as a result of God's kindness in choosing them.
  2. And if they are saved by God's kindness, then it is not by their good works. For in that case, God's wonderful kindness would not be what it really is--free and undeserved.

Ephesians 1:3

  1. How we praise God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we belong to Christ.
  2. Long ago, even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes.

Titus 1:2

  1. This truth gives them the confidence of eternal life, which God promised them before the world began--and he cannot lie.

Romans 8:28

  1. And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.
  2. For God knew his people in advance, and he chose them to become like his Son, so that his Son would be the firstborn, with many brothers and sisters.
  3. And having chosen them, he called them to come to him. And he gave them right standing with himself, and he promised them his glory.
  4. What can we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us?
  5. Since God did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won't God, who gave us Christ, also give us everything else?

Isaiah 14:26

  1. I have a plan for the whole earth, for my mighty power reaches throughout the world.
  2. The LORD Almighty has spoken--who can change his plans? When his hand moves, who can stop him?"

Deuteronomy 7:7

  1. "The LORD did not choose you and lavish his love on you because you were larger or greater than other nations, for you were the smallest of all nations!
  2. It was simply because the LORD loves you, and because he was keeping the oath he had sworn to your ancestors. That is why the LORD rescued you with such amazing power from your slavery under Pharaoh in Egypt.

Romans 9:11

  1. But before they were born, before they had done anything good or bad, she received a message from God. (This message proves that God chooses according to his own plan,

John 17:9

  1. "My prayer is not for the world, but for those you have given me, because they belong to you.

John 17:24

  1. Father, I want these whom you've given me to be with me, so they can see my glory. You gave me the glory because you loved me even before the world began!

1 Peter 2:9

  1. But you are not like that, for you are a chosen people. You are a kingdom of priests, God's holy nation, his very own possession. This is so you can show others the goodness of God, for he called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light.

2 Thessalonians 2:13

  1. As for us, we always thank God for you, dear brothers and sisters loved by the Lord. We are thankful that God chose you to be among the first to experience salvation, a salvation that came through the Spirit who makes you holy and by your belief in the truth.
  2. He called you to salvation when we told you the Good News; now you can share in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Thessalonians 4:7

  1. God has called us to be holy, not to live impure lives.

1 Corinthians 1:18

  1. I know very well how foolish the message of the cross sounds to those who are on the road to destruction. But we who are being saved recognize this message as the very power of God.

John 10:28

  1. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one will snatch them away from me,
  2. for my Father has given them to me, and he is more powerful than anyone else. So no one can take them from me.

Ephesians 1:11

  1. Furthermore, because of Christ, we have received an inheritance from God, for he chose us from the beginning, and all things happen just as he decided long ago.

John 6:37

  1. However, those the Father has given me will come to me, and I will never reject them.

Hebrews 3:1

  1. And so, dear brothers and sisters who belong to God and are bound for heaven, think about this Jesus whom we declare to be God's Messenger and High Priest.

Revelation 13:8

  1. And all the people who belong to this world worshiped the beast. They are the ones whose names were not written in the Book of Life, which belongs to the Lamb who was killed before the world was made.

1 Peter 1:20

  1. God chose him for this purpose long before the world began, but now in these final days, he was sent to the earth for all to see. And he did this for you.

Matthew 11:25

  1. Then Jesus prayed this prayer: "O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, thank you for hiding the truth from those who think themselves so wise and clever, and for revealing it to the childlike.
  2. Yes, Father, it pleased you to do it this way!

Ephesians 2:5

  1. that even while we were dead because of our sins, he gave us life when he raised Christ from the dead. (It is only by God's special favor that you have been saved!)

Luke 10:21

  1. Then Jesus was filled with the joy of the Holy Spirit and said, "O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, thank you for hiding the truth from those who think themselves so wise and clever, and for revealing it to the childlike. Yes, Father, it pleased you to do it this way.

Romans 3:20

  1. For no one can ever be made right in God's sight by doing what his law commands. For the more we know God's law, the clearer it becomes that we aren't obeying it.

Matthew 1:21

  1. And she will have a son, and you are to name him Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins."

Romans 9:24

  1. even upon us, whom he selected, both from the Jews and from the Gentiles.

Ephesians 3:11

  1. This was his plan from all eternity, and it has now been carried out through Christ Jesus our Lord.

1 Peter 1:15

  1. But now you must be holy in everything you do, just as God--who chose you to be his children--is holy.
  2. For he himself has said, "You must be holy because I am holy."

1 Timothy 1:1

  1. This letter is from Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus, appointed by the command of God our Savior and by Christ Jesus our hope.

Ephesians 1:9

  1. God's secret plan has now been revealed to us; it is a plan centered on Christ, designed long ago according to his good pleasure.

Acts 2:47

  1. all the while praising God and enjoying the goodwill of all the people. And each day the Lord added to their group those who were being saved.

Revelation 17:8

  1. The beast you saw was alive but isn't now. And yet he will soon come up out of the bottomless pit and go to eternal destruction. And the people who belong to this world, whose names were not written in the Book of Life from before the world began, will be amazed at the reappearance of this beast who had died.

1 Corinthians 3:21

  1. So don't take pride in following a particular leader. Everything belongs to you:
  2. Paul and Apollos and Peter; the whole world and life and death; the present and the future. Everything belongs to you,

Acts 15:18

  1. he who made these things known long ago.'
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