1 Peter 4:16
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16 But whoever is made to suffer as a Christian should not be ashamed but glorify God because of the name.
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1 Timothy 1:10-11
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10 the unchaste, sodomites,[a] kidnappers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is opposed to sound teaching,(A) 11 according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, with which I have been entrusted.(B)
Gratitude for God’s Mercy.[b]
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- 1:10 Sodomites: see 1 Cor 6:9 and the note there.
- 1:12–17 Present gratitude for the Christian apostleship leads Paul to recall an earlier time when he had been a fierce persecutor of the Christian communities (cf. Acts 26:9–11) until his conversion by intervention of divine mercy through the appearance of Jesus. This and his subsequent apostolic experience testify to the saving purpose of Jesus’ incarnation. The fact of his former ignorance of the truth has not kept the apostle from regarding himself as having been the worst of sinners (1 Tm 1:15). Yet he was chosen to be an apostle, that God might manifest his firm will to save sinful humanity through Jesus Christ (1 Tm 1:16). The recounting of so great a mystery leads to a spontaneous outpouring of adoration (1 Tm 1:17).
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