Verse 17

but the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the Good News.

Referenced Verses

  • Phil 1:7 : 7 It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because, both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Good News, you all are partakers with me of grace.
  • Phil 2:3 : 3 doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;
  • 1 Tim 2:7 : 7 to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth in Christ, not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
  • 2 Tim 1:11-12 : 11 For this, I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles. 12 For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.
  • 2 Tim 4:6-7 : 6 For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has come. 7 I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.
  • 2 Tim 4:16 : 16 At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them.
  • Luke 21:14 : 14 Settle it therefore in your hearts not to meditate beforehand how to answer,
  • Acts 22:1 : 1 "Brothers and fathers, listen to the defense which I now make to you."
  • Acts 26:1 : 1 Agrippa said to Paul, "You may speak for yourself." Then Paul stretched out his hand, and made his defense.
  • Acts 26:24 : 24 As he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, "Paul, you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane!"
  • Rom 1:13-17 : 13 Now I don't desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you, and was hindered so far, that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles. 14 I am debtor both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to the wise and to the foolish. 15 So, as much as is in me, I am eager to preach the Good News to you also who are in Rome. 16 For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek. 17 For in it is revealed God's righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, "But the righteous shall live by faith."
  • 1 Cor 9:16-17 : 16 For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about; for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me, if I don't preach the Good News. 17 For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.
  • Gal 2:7-8 : 7 but to the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the uncircumcision, even as Peter with the Good News for the circumcision 8 (for he who appointed Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision appointed me also to the Gentiles);