1 Timothy 1:13

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Though I had said violent words against God, and done cruel acts, causing great trouble: but I was given mercy, because I did it without knowledge, not having faith;

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  • Acts 8:3 : 3 But Saul was burning with hate against the church, going into every house and taking men and women and putting them in prison.
  • John 9:39-41 : 39 And Jesus said, I came into this world to be a judge, so that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind. 40 These words came to the ears of the Pharisees who were with him and they said to him, Are we, then, blind? 41 Jesus said to them, If you were blind you would have no sin: but now that you say, We see; your sin is there still.
  • Acts 3:17 : 17 And now, my brothers, I am conscious that you did this, as did your rulers, without knowledge.
  • Heb 6:4-8 : 4 As for those who at one time saw the light, tasting the good things from heaven, and having their part in the Holy Spirit, 5 With knowledge of the good word of God, and of the powers of the coming time, 6 And then let themselves be turned away, it is not possible for their hearts to be made new a second time; because they themselves put the Son of God on the cross again, openly shaming him. 7 For a land, drinking in the frequent rain and producing good plants for those for whom it is worked, has a blessing from God: 8 But if it sends up thorns and evil plants, it is of no use and is ready to be cursed; its only end is to be burned.
  • Heb 10:26-29 : 26 For if we do evil on purpose after we have had the knowledge of what is true, there is no more offering for sins, 27 But only a great fear of being judged, and of the fire of wrath which will be the destruction of the haters of God. 28 A man who has gone against the law of Moses is put to death without pity on the word of two or three witnesses: 29 But will not the man by whom the Son of God has been crushed under foot, and the blood of the agreement with which he was washed clean has been taken as an unholy thing, and who has had no respect for the Spirit of grace, be judged bad enough for a very much worse punishment?
  • 2 Pet 2:21-22 : 21 For it would have been better for them to have had no knowledge of the way of righteousness, than to go back again from the holy law which was given to them, after having knowledge of it. 22 They are an example of that true saying, The dog has gone back to the food it had put out, and the pig which had been washed to its rolling in the dirty earth.
  • 1 Pet 2:10 : 10 In the past you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; then there was no mercy for you, but now mercy has been given to you.
  • Num 15:30 : 30 But the person who does wrong in the pride of his heart, if he is one of you or of another nation by birth, is acting without respect for the Lord, and will be cut off from his people.
  • Hos 2:23 : 23 And I will put her as seed in the earth, and I will have mercy on her to whom no mercy was given; and I will say to those who were not my people, You are my people, and they will say, My God.
  • Luke 12:47 : 47 And the servant who had knowledge of his lord's desires and was not ready for him and did not do as he was ordered, will be given a great number of blows;
  • Luke 23:34 : 34 And Jesus said, Father, let them have forgiveness, for they have no knowledge of what they are doing. And they made division of his clothing among them by the decision of chance.
  • Acts 9:1 : 1 But Saul, still burning with desire to put to death the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,
  • Acts 9:5 : 5 And he said, Who are you, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus, whom you are attacking:
  • Acts 9:13 : 13 But Ananias said, Lord, I have had accounts of this man from a number of people, how much evil he has done to your saints at Jerusalem:
  • Acts 22:4 : 4 And I made attacks on this Way, even to death, taking men and women and putting them in prison.
  • Acts 26:9-9 : 9 For I, truly, was of the opinion that it was right for me to do a number of things against the name of Jesus of Nazareth. 10 And this I did in Jerusalem: and numbers of the saints I put in prison, having had authority given to me from the chief priests, and when they were put to death, I gave my decision against them. 11 And I gave them punishment frequently, in all the Synagogues, forcing them to say things against God; and burning with passion against them, I went after them even into far-away towns.
  • Rom 5:20-21 : 20 And the law came in addition, to make wrongdoing worse; but where there was much sin, there was much more grace: 21 That, as sin had power in death, so grace might have power through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
  • Rom 11:30-31 : 30 For as you, in time past, were not under the rule of God, but now have got mercy through their turning away, 31 So in the same way these have gone against the orders of God, so that by the mercy given to you they may now get mercy.
  • 1 Cor 7:25 : 25 Now about virgins I have no orders from the Lord: but I give my opinion as one to whom the Lord has given mercy to be true to him.
  • 1 Cor 15:9 : 9 For I am the least of the Apostles, having no right to be named an Apostle, because of my cruel attacks on the church of God.
  • Gal 1:13 : 13 For news has come to you of my way of life in the past in the Jews' religion, how I was cruel without measure to the church of God, and did great damage to it:
  • Phil 3:6 : 6 In bitter hate I was cruel to the church; I kept all the righteousness of the law to the last detail.
  • 1 Tim 1:16 : 16 But for this reason I was given mercy, so that in me, the chief of sinners, Jesus Christ might make clear all his mercy, as an example to those who in the future would have faith in him to eternal life.
  • Heb 4:16 : 16 Then let us come near to the seat of grace without fear, so that mercy may be given to us, and we may get grace for our help in time of need.

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    14 And the grace of our Lord was very great, with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

    15 It is a true saying, in which all may put their faith, that Christ Jesus came into the world to give salvation to sinners, of whom I am the chief:

    16 But for this reason I was given mercy, so that in me, the chief of sinners, Jesus Christ might make clear all his mercy, as an example to those who in the future would have faith in him to eternal life.

  • Gal 1:12-16
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    12 For I did not get it from man, and I was not given teaching in it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ.

    13 For news has come to you of my way of life in the past in the Jews' religion, how I was cruel without measure to the church of God, and did great damage to it:

    14 And I went farther in the Jews' religion than a number of my generation among my countrymen, having a more burning interest in the beliefs handed down from my fathers.

    15 But when it was the good pleasure of God, by whom I was marked out even from my mother's body, through his grace,

    16 To give the revelation of his Son in me, so that I might give the news of him to the Gentiles; then I did not take the opinion of flesh and blood,

  • 1 Tim 1:11-12
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    11 Which may be seen in the good news of the glory of the great God, which was given into my care.

    12 I give praise to him who gave me power, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he took me to be true, making me his servant,

  • 1 Cor 15:9-10
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    9 For I am the least of the Apostles, having no right to be named an Apostle, because of my cruel attacks on the church of God.

    10 But by the grace of God, I am what I am: and his grace which was given to me has not been for nothing; for I did more work than all of them; though not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

  • Gal 1:21-24
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    21 Then I came to the parts of Syria and Cilicia.

    22 And the churches of Judaea which were in Christ still had no knowledge of my face or person:

    23 Only it came to their ears that he who at one time was cruel to us is now preaching the faith which before had been attacked by him;

    24 And they gave glory to God in me.

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    6 In bitter hate I was cruel to the church; I kept all the righteousness of the law to the last detail.

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    17 But when he was in Rome, he went in search of me everywhere, and came to me

    18 (May he have the Lord's mercy in that day); and of all he did for me at Ephesus you have full knowledge.

  • Acts 26:9-16
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    9 For I, truly, was of the opinion that it was right for me to do a number of things against the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

    10 And this I did in Jerusalem: and numbers of the saints I put in prison, having had authority given to me from the chief priests, and when they were put to death, I gave my decision against them.

    11 And I gave them punishment frequently, in all the Synagogues, forcing them to say things against God; and burning with passion against them, I went after them even into far-away towns.

    12 Then, when I was journeying to Damascus with the authority and orders of the chief priests,

    13 In the middle of the day, on the road I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining round me and those who were journeying with me.

    14 And when we had all gone down on the earth, a voice came to me, saying in the Hebrew language, Saul, Saul, why are you attacking me so cruelly? It is hard for you to go against the impulse which is driving you.

    15 And I said, Who are you, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus, whom you are attacking.

    16 But get up on your feet: for I have come to you for this purpose, to make you a servant and a witness of the things in which you have seen me, and of those in which you will see me;

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    19 And I said, Lord, they themselves have knowledge that I went through the Synagogues putting in prison and whipping all those who had faith in you:

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    10 But you took as your example my teaching, behaviour, purpose, and faith; my long waiting, my love, my quiet undergoing of trouble;

    11 My punishments and pain; the things which came to me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; the cruel attacks made on me: and the Lord made me free from them all.

  • Rom 11:30
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    30 For as you, in time past, were not under the rule of God, but now have got mercy through their turning away,

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    11 Of which I was made a preacher and an Apostle and a teacher;

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    5 For in my opinion, I am in no way less than the most important of the Apostles.

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    6 And it came about that while I was on my journey, coming near to Damascus, about the middle of the day, suddenly I saw a great light from heaven shining round me.

    7 And when I went down on the earth, a voice came to my ears saying to me, Saul, Saul, why are you attacking me so cruelly?

    8 And I, answering, said, Who are you; Lord? And he said to me, I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you are attacking.

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    17 And now, my brothers, I am conscious that you did this, as did your rulers, without knowledge.

  • 2 Cor 12:13
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    13 For what is there in which you were made less than the other churches, but in the one thing that I was not a trouble to you? Let me have forgiveness for this wrong.

  • Acts 11:17
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    17 If then God gave them, when they had faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, the same as he gave to us, who was I to go against God?

  • Eph 3:8
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    8 To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, was this grace given, so that I might make clear to the Gentiles the good news of the unending wealth of Christ:

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    4 And I made attacks on this Way, even to death, taking men and women and putting them in prison.

  • Acts 9:13
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    13 But Ananias said, Lord, I have had accounts of this man from a number of people, how much evil he has done to your saints at Jerusalem:

  • 2 Tim 1:9
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    9 Who gave us salvation, marking us out for his purpose, not on account of our works, but in the measure of his purpose and his grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

  • Acts 22:11
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    11 And because I was unable to see because of the glory of that light, those who were with me took me by the hand, and so I came to Damascus.

  • Acts 9:5
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    5 And he said, Who are you, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus, whom you are attacking:

  • Col 1:25
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    25 Of which I became a servant by the purpose of God which was given to me for you, to give effect to the word of God,

  • Acts 9:21
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    21 And all those hearing him were full of wonder and said, Is not this the man who in Jerusalem was attacking all the worshippers of this name? and he had come here so that he might take them as prisoners before the chief priests.

  • Titus 3:3
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    3 For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.

  • 2 Cor 12:11
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    11 I have been forced by you to become foolish, though it was right for my praise to have come from you: for in no way was I less than the chief of the Apostles, though I am nothing.

  • Acts 26:19
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    19 So, then, King Agrippa, I did not go against the vision from heaven;