2 Timothy 1:18 Cross References - Moffatt

¹⁸ (may he find favour with the Lord on the great Day! The Lord grant it!). And you know very well what a help he was to me in Ephesus.

³⁴ Then shall the King say to those on his right, 'Come, you whom my Father has blessed, come into your inheritance in the realm prepared for you from the foundation of the world. ³⁵ For I was hungry and you fed me, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you entertained me, ³⁶ I was unclothed and you clothed me, I was ill and you looked after me, I was in prison and you visited me.' ³⁷ Then the just will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and fed you? or thirsty and gave you drink? ³⁸ when did we see you a stranger and entertain you? or unclothed and clothed you? ³⁹ when did we see you ill or in prison and visit you?' ⁴⁰ The King will answer them, 'I tell you truly, in so far as you did it to one of these brothers of mine, even to the least of them, you did it to me.'

⁷² to deal mercifully with our fathers and to be mindful of his holy covenant,

⁷⁸ by the tender mercy of our God, who will make the Dawn visit us from on high,

³ Joanna the wife of Chuza the chancellor of Herod, Susanna, and a number of others, who ministered to him out of their means.

¹ It was when Apollos was in Corinth that Paul, after passing through the inland districts, came down to Ephesus. There he found some disciples,

²³ All have sinned, all come short of the glory of God, ²⁴ but they are justified for nothing by his grace through the ransom provided in Christ Jesus,

¹⁵ God says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I choose to have mercy, I will have compassion on whom I choose to have compassion. ¹⁶ You see, it is not a question of human will or effort but of the divine mercy. ¹⁷ Why, scripture says to Pharaoh, It was for this that I raised you up, to display my power in you, and to spread news of my name over all the earth. ¹⁸ Thus God has mercy on anyone just as he pleases, and he makes anyone stubborn just as he pleases. ¹⁹ "Then," you will retort, "why does he go on finding fault? Who can oppose his will?" ²⁰ But who are you, my man, to speak back to God? Is something a man has moulded to ask him who has moulded it, "Why did you make me like this?" ²¹ What! has the potter no right over the clay? Has he no right to make out of the same lump one vessel for a noble purpose and another for a menial? ²² What if God, though desirous to display his anger and show his might, has tolerated most patiently the objects of his anger, ripe and ready to be destroyed? ²³ What if he means to show the wealth that lies in his glory for the objects of his mercy, whom he has made ready beforehand to receive glory —

⁸ I am staying on for the present at Ephesus till Pentecost,

¹ Indeed it is quite superfluous for me to be writing to you about this charitable service to the saints;

⁴ But, dead in trespasses as we were, God was so rich in mercy that for his great love to us

¹⁹ For who is our hope, our joy, our crown of pride (who but you?) in the presence of our Lord Jesus on his arrival?

³ As I asked you when I was on my way to Macedonia, stay where you are at Ephesus and warn certain individuals against teaching novelties

¹² and this is why I am suffering. Still, I am not ashamed of it; I know whom I have trusted and I am certain he is able to keep what I have put into his hands till the great Day.

¹⁶ May the Lord show favour to the household of Onesiphorus, for many a time he braced me up; he was not ashamed of my imprisonment —

¹² (I have had to send Tychicus to Ephesus.)

¹⁰ God is not unfair; he will not forget what you have done, or the love you have shown for his sake in ministering, as you still do, to the saints.

¹⁰ Even prophets have searched and inquired about that salvation, the prophets who prophesied of the grace that was meant for you;

¹ To the angel of the church at Ephesus write thus: — These are the words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who moves among the seven golden lampstands: