1 Timothy 3:16 Cross References - MNT

¹⁶ Yes! without contradiction, great is the mystery of godliness!

²³ Behold! the virgin shall be with child, and shall bear a son; and they shall call his name Immanuel, a word which means "God with us."

¹⁶ Then he consented. And after Jesus was baptized, as soon as he rose out of the water, lo! the heavens opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon him,

¹¹ Then the devil left him, and behold! angels came and began ministering to him.

¹¹ "Why do you speak to them in parables?" Jesus answered. "To you it has been granted to understand the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven; but to them it has not been granted.

² There had been a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord had come down from heaven, and gone and rolled away the stone, and was sitting upon it.

¹³ and he remained in the desert for forty days, tempted by Satan; and he was among the wild beasts, but the angels were ministering to him.

⁵ and upon entering the tomb they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a white robe.

¹⁹ So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.

¹⁰ "Have no fear, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be for all the people. ¹¹ "For unto you born this day in there is born in David's town a Saviour, who is the Anointed Lord. ¹² "And this is a sign to you; You shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling-clothes lying in a manger." ¹³ And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the Heavenly army praising God and saying, ¹⁴ "Glory to God in the highest, And in earth peace among men who please him"

³² "A light for the unveiling of the Gentiles And the glory of thy people Israel."

⁴³ (And there appeared to him an angel from heaven, strengthening him.)

⁴ While they were still perplexed over this, it happened that the two men stood near them in dazzling raiment.

⁵¹ And it happened that while he was blessing them, that he parted from them and was carried into heaven.

¹ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was face to face with God, and the Word was God. ² He was face to face with God in the Beginning.

¹⁴ And the Word became flesh and tented with us. And we gazed on his glory—glory as of the Father's only Son—full of grace and truth.

³² John also bore this testimony, saying. "I saw the Spirit like a dove descend from heaven and rest upon him. ³³ And I did not recognize him, but He who sent me to baptize in water said to me, 'The one on whom you see the Spirit descending and resting upon him, is he who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.'

⁶² "Does this displease you? What then if you were to behold the Son of man ascending to where he was before?

³ Jesus, knowing that the Father had given everything into his hands, and that he was come from God,

²⁶ "When the Comforter is come whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of Truth who comes forth from the Father, he will bear witness of me;

⁸ And he, when he comes, will convict the world of sins and of righteousness and of judgment; ⁹ of sin, because they do not believe in me;

²⁸ I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world. again, I am leaving the world, and am going to the Father."

⁵ And now, O Father, glorify thou me with own self, with the glory I had with thee before the world began.

¹² and gazed at two angels in glistening white sitting, one at the head the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.

¹ My first account, O Theophilus, dealt with all that Jesus began doing and teaching from the beginning down to the day when, ² after giving instructions through the Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen, he was taken up to heaven. ³ After his sufferings he had also shown himself alive to them in many convincing manifestations, revealing himself to them during forty days, and speaking of the kingdom of God. ⁴ And once when he was eating with them he charged them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father. "Of this," he said, "you have heard from me. ⁵ "For John indeed baptized in water, but you shall be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days hence." ⁶ So, when they came together, they began to ask him, "Master, are you at this time about to restore the kingdom of Israel?" ⁷ He answered. "It is not for you to know times and occasions which the Father has fixed in his own authority; ⁸ "yet you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you are to be my witnesses both in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and to the very ends of the earth." ⁹ When he had said this, and while they were looking at him, he was lifted up, and a cloud received him up out of their sight. ¹⁰ While they were gazing into the sky as he was going up, suddenly there were two men in white garments standing by them, ¹¹ and they said: "Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing into the sky? This same Jesus who has been taken up from you into the sky will come back in just the same way as you have seen him going into the sky."

¹⁹ "This fact became known to the people of Jerusalem so that the place was called in their language, Acheldamach, The Field of Blood.

³² This Jesus God has raised up, of this we are all witnesses. ³³ Since he is by the mighty hand of God exalted, and has received from his Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured forth this which you now see and hear. ³⁴ For David did not ascend into heaven; but he himself said, "The Lord said to my Lord Sit thou on my right hand ³⁵ "Until I make thine enemies A footstool under thy feet. ³⁶ "Therefore let the whole House of Israel know assuredly that Gods has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you have crucified."

³⁴ Then Peter began to speak. "Of a truth I begin to see quite plainly that God is no respecter of persons;

⁴⁶ So Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly. "It was necessary," they said, "first to proclaim the word of God to you. But since you push it away from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles. ⁴⁷ "For such is God's command to us, saying, "I have set thee for a light to the Gentiles, That thou shouldest be for salvation to the uttermost part of the earth." ⁴⁸ When the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord, and all who had been ordained to eternal life, believed.

²⁷ On their arrival they assembled the church and reported all things that God had done through them, and how he had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles.

²⁸ Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has appointed you overseers, and be shepherds of the church of God which he has purchased with his own blood.

³ this gospel is concerning his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, who was born of David's posterity in respect of his bodily nature, ⁴ but was by his resurrection from the dead instated as Son of God, with power, in respect of his spirit of holiness.

³ For God has done what the Law could not do, weakened as it was by flesh. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and on account of sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

⁵ theirs are the patriarchs, and of them, as concerning the flesh, is Christ, who is over all, God, blessed forever, Amen.

¹² For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile, because the same Lord Jesus is all over, and is rich unto all who call upon Him;

¹⁸ But I ask, Did they fail to hear? Yes, truly, Their sound has gone out unto all the earth, And their words unto the ends of the world.

²⁵ Now I commend you to Him who is able to keep you stedfast, according to my gospel, and the proclamation of Jesus Christ, whereby is unveiled the secret truth which was kept secret through immemorial ages,

⁷ No, it is God's wisdom that I utter, that hidden wisdom which God had decreed before the world began, unto our glory.

⁴⁷ The first man is of the earth, earthly; the second Man is of heaven.

⁸ (for he who has equipped Peter for the apostleship to the circumcised, equipped me also for the apostleship to the Gentiles),

⁴ But when the fulness of time was come God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under law,

⁹ when he made known to us, I say, that good pleasure which he purposed in himself

³ You have heard how by direct revelation the secret truth was made known to me, as I have already briefly written you. ⁴ By reading what I have written, you can judge of my insight into that secret truth of Christ ⁵ which was not disclosed to the sons of men in former generations, as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to his holy apostles and prophets, ⁶ namely, that in Christ Jesus the Gentiles form one body with us the Jews, and are coheirs and copartners in the promise, through the gospel. ⁷ It is of this gospel I became a minister according to the gift of the power of the grace of God, bestowed on me by the energy of his power. ⁸ To me, who am less than the least of all saints, has this grace been given, that I should proclaim among the Gentiles the gospel of the unsearchable riches of Christ; ⁹ and should make all men see the new dispensation of that secret purpose, hidden from eternity in the God who founded the universe, ¹⁰ in order that now his manifold wisdom should, through the church, be made known to the principalities and powers in the heavenly sphere,

⁸ Thus it is said, When he ascended on high, he led captivity captive and gave gifts to men. ⁹ Now surely this "he ascended" implies that he also descended into the lower part of the earth. ¹⁰ He who descended is he who ascended above the highest heaven, that he might fill the universe.

¹⁹ and for me, that utterance may be given me to open my mouth boldly, and to make known the mystery of the gospel for which I am an ambassador,

⁶ who, though from the beginning he had the nature of God, did not reckon equality with God something to be forcibly retained, ⁷ but emptied himself of his glory by taking the form of a slave, when he was born in the likeness of men. ⁸ More than this, after he had shone himself in human form, he humbled himself in his obedience even to death; yes, and to death on a cross.

⁶ And just as it is spreading through the whole world, bearing fruit and increasing, so also is it among you, from the day in which you heard it, and came truly to know the grace of God,

¹⁶ for in him was the universe created, things in heaven and on earth, the seen and the unseen, thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers; by him and for him all have been created; ¹⁷ and HE IS before all, and in him all things subsist. ¹⁸ He is the head of his Body, the Church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, in order that in all things he may become preeminent.

²³ And this he will do if, indeed, you continue in the faith, firmly founded and stedfast, and never moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, and which has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, that gospel of which I, Paul, was made a minister.

²⁷ To them God willed to make known among the Gentiles how glorious are the riches of that secret truth, which is "Christ in you, the hope of glory."

² May their hearts be comforted! May they be knit together in love! May they gain in all its riches the full assurance of their understanding! May they come to a perfect knowledge of the secret truth of God, which is Christ himself.

¹⁰ when he comes to be glorified in his saints, and to be wondered at in all believers, on that Day; (for you also believed our testimony).

⁷ For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only there is one who is hindering and will continue to hinder till he be removed;

⁹ holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.

³ He being an emanation of God's glory and stamp of his substance, and upholding the universe by the utterances of his power, after by himself making purification of our sins, has taken his seat on the right hand of the Majesty on High.

⁹ What we do see is Jesus, who was made for a time a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor, because of the suffering of death, in order that through God's grace he might taste death for every man. ¹⁰ For it befitted him, for whom and through whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the Pioneer of their salvation perfect through sufferings. ¹¹ For both he who sanctifies and those whom he is sanctifying are all from One; for which reason he is not ashamed to call them brothers, saying. ¹² I will proclaim thy name to my brothers; In the midst of the Church I will hymn thy praises. ¹³ And again, I myself will put my trust in God. And again, Lo, I and the children God has given me.

⁷ Now it is beyond all controversy that the inferior is always blessed by the superior.

¹ The pith of all that we have been saying is this; we do have such a High Priest; and he has taken his seat on the right hand of the throne of Majesty in the heavens,

² looking unto Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured a cross, despising shame, and has now taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God.

¹² It was revealed to them that it was not for themselves, but for you, that they were ministering the truths which have now been announced to you, by those who preached the gospel to you, through the help of the Holy Spirit sent forth from heaven—truths into which angels long to look.

²⁰ He was indeed foreknown before the foundation of the world, but was manifested at the end of the times for your sake.

¹⁸ because Christ also once for all suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but make alive in spirit.

²² He is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; to Him angels and authorities and powers have been made subject.

² And the Life was made visible, and we have seen it and are bearing witness, and are bringing you word of that Eternal Life which was face to face with the Father and was made visible to us.

⁵ And you know that he was manifested to take away sins; and in him is no sin.

⁶ Jesus Christ is he who came by water and blood, not by the water only, but by the water and by the blood. The spirit is he who bears testimony, because the Spirit is the truth. ⁷ For there are three who bear testimony, the Spirit, and the water, ⁸ and the blood; and the three are one.

¹⁷ When I saw him, I fell at his feet as one dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying. "Fear not; I am the first and the last, and the Living One. ¹⁸ I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore; and hold the keys of death and of Hades.

⁹ After this I looked, and behold a great multitude, whom no man could number, out of every nation and tribe and people and tongue, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands;

⁵ Upon her forehead a name was written, a mystery, "BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS, AND ABOMINABLE THINGS OF THE EARTH."

⁷ And the angel said to me. "Why did you wonder? I will explain to you the mystery of the woman, and of the beast with the seven heads and ten horns, that carried her.