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1 Timothy 1:15-17
New Catholic Bible
1 Timothy 1:15-17
New Catholic Bible
15 This saying can be trusted and merits complete acceptance:[a] Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. I myself am the greatest of these. 16 But for that very reason I was treated mercifully, so that in me Jesus Christ might exhibit his inexhaustible patience, making me an example for those who would come to believe in him for eternal life. 17 To the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God,[b] be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
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- 1 Timothy 1:15 This saying can be trusted and merits complete acceptance: a formula that corresponds to the Aramaic expression in the Gospels: “Amen, I say to you.” It is found only in the Pastoral Letters—here and in four other places: 1 Tim 3:1; 4:9; 2 Tim 2:11; Tit 3:8. (In the first, third, and fourth of these it is abbreviated.)
- 1 Timothy 1:17 Immortal, invisible, the only God: here again Paul gives the true God titles used in pagan worship; see vv. 1 and 11.
