1 Timothy 1:15 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁵This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.

1 Timothy 1:15 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Mark 2:17
When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Luke 19:10
For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.
John 3:16-17
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. …
John 12:47
And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
John 1:12
But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 12-17)

Here the apostle, I. Returns thanks to Jesus Christ for putting him into the ministry. Observe, 1. It is Christ’s work to put men into the ministry, Acts 26:16, 17. God condemned the false prophets among the Jews in these words, I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied, Jer. 23:21. Ministers, properly speaking, cannot make themselves ministers; f…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 15)

15. faithful--worthy of credit, because “God” who says it “is faithful” to His word (1Co 1:9; 1Th 5:24; 2Th 3:3; Re 21:5; 22:6). This seems to have become an axiomatic saying among Christians the phrase, “faithful saying,” is peculiar to the Pastoral Epistles (1Ti 2:11; 4:9; Tit 3:8). Translate as Greek, “Faithful is the saying.” all--all possible; full; to be received by all, and with all the fac…