1 Timothy 2:7 我为此奉派作传道的，作使徒，作外邦人的师傅，教导他们相信，学习真道。我说的是真话，并不是谎言。

2:7 MSG

逐節對照

新标点和合本 - 我为此奉派作传道的，作使徒，作外邦人的师傅，教导他们相信，学习真道。我说的是真话，并不是谎言。
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 我为此奉派作传道，作使徒，在信仰和真理上作外邦人的教师。我说的是真话，不是说谎。
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 我为此奉派作传道，作使徒，在信仰和真理上作外邦人的教师。我说的是真话，不是说谎。
当代译本 - 为此，我被指派做传道人和使徒，教导外族人认识信仰和真理。我说的是实话，并非谎言。
圣经新译本 - 为了这事，我也被派作传道的和使徒（我说的是真话，不是谎言），在信仰和真理上作外族人的教师。
中文标准译本 - 为此，我受指派做传道者和使徒，在信仰和真理上做外邦人的教师。我说的是真话，没有说谎。
现代标点和合本 - 我为此奉派做传道的，做使徒，做外邦人的师傅，教导他们相信，学习真道。我说的是真话，并不是谎言。
和合本（拼音版） - 我为此奉派作传道的，作使徒，作外邦人的师傅，教导他们相信，学习真道。我说的是真话，并不是谎言。
New International Version - And for this purpose I was appointed a herald and an apostle—I am telling the truth, I am not lying—and a true and faithful teacher of the Gentiles.
New International Reader's Version - I was appointed to be a messenger and an apostle to preach the good news. I am telling the truth. I’m not lying. God appointed me to be a true and faithful teacher of the Gentiles.
English Standard Version - For this I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
New Living Translation - And I have been chosen as a preacher and apostle to teach the Gentiles this message about faith and truth. I’m not exaggerating—just telling the truth.
Christian Standard Bible - For this I was appointed a herald, an apostle (I am telling the truth; I am not lying), and a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
New American Standard Bible - For this I was appointed as a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying), as a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
New King James Version - for which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle—I am speaking the truth in Christ and not lying—a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
Amplified Bible - And for this matter I was appointed a preacher and an apostle—I am telling the truth, I am not lying [when I say this]—a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
American Standard Version - whereunto I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I speak the truth, I lie not), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
King James Version - Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity.
New English Translation - For this I was appointed a preacher and apostle – I am telling the truth; I am not lying – and a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
World English Bible - 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.
新標點和合本 - 我為此奉派作傳道的，作使徒，作外邦人的師傅，教導他們相信，學習真道。我說的是真話，並不是謊言。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 我為此奉派作傳道，作使徒，在信仰和真理上作外邦人的教師。我說的是真話，不是說謊。
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 我為此奉派作傳道，作使徒，在信仰和真理上作外邦人的教師。我說的是真話，不是說謊。
當代譯本 - 為此，我被指派做傳道人和使徒，教導外族人認識信仰和真理。我說的是實話，並非謊言。
聖經新譯本 - 為了這事，我也被派作傳道的和使徒（我說的是真話，不是謊言），在信仰和真理上作外族人的教師。
呂振中譯本 - 為了這個、我被立做報信者、做使徒（我說實話，並不撒謊），在信仰和真理上做外國人的教師。
中文標準譯本 - 為此，我受指派做傳道者和使徒，在信仰和真理上做外邦人的教師。我說的是真話，沒有說謊。
現代標點和合本 - 我為此奉派做傳道的，做使徒，做外邦人的師傅，教導他們相信，學習真道。我說的是真話，並不是謊言。
文理和合譯本 - 我為此見立為使徒、為宣告者、以信以誠、為列邦之師、我言真而不誑也、○
文理委辦譯本 - 我宗基督言真而不偽、奉命為使徒、務傳斯道、教異邦人信主真理、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 我賴基督、言真而不偽、我為此道而特設為傳道者、為使徒、為異邦人之師、教之以信以真、○
吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 我之蒙簡為傳報福音之宗徒、而充列邦信德上、真道上、之導師者、實亦為此明證而已。吾作此言、實屬至誠而無妄也。
Nueva Versión Internacional - y para proclamarlo me nombró heraldo y apóstol. Digo la verdad y no miento: Dios me hizo maestro de los gentiles para enseñarles la verdadera fe.
현대인의 성경 - 나는 이 그리스도를 전하기 위해 전도자와 사도로 임명을 받았으며 믿음과 진리 안에서 이방인의 스승이 되었습니다. 이것은 거짓말이 아닌 사실입니다.
Новый Русский Перевод - Поэтому я и был поставлен глашатаем, апостолом и учителем истинной веры для других народов, и я говорю вам правду, не лгу.
Восточный перевод - Поэтому я и был поставлен глашатаем, посланником Масиха и учителем истинной веры для других народов, и я говорю вам правду, не лгу.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Поэтому я и был поставлен глашатаем, посланником аль-Масиха и учителем истинной веры для других народов, и я говорю вам правду, не лгу.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Поэтому я и был поставлен глашатаем, посланником Масеха и учителем истинной веры для других народов, и я говорю вам правду, не лгу.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - C’est pour publier ce témoignage que j’ai été institué prédicateur et apôtre (je dis la vérité, je ne mens pas), pour enseigner aux non-Juifs ce qui concerne la foi et la vérité.
リビングバイブル - この真理、つまり、救いは信仰によって与えられるという神の計画を外国人に伝えるために、私は伝道者また使徒として選ばれました。これは、うそ偽りのない事実です。
Nestle Aland 28 - εἰς ὃ ἐτέθην ἐγὼ κῆρυξ καὶ ἀπόστολος, ἀλήθειαν λέγω οὐ ψεύδομαι, διδάσκαλος ἐθνῶν ἐν πίστει καὶ ἀληθείᾳ.
unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - εἰς ὃ ἐτέθην ἐγὼ κῆρυξ καὶ ἀπόστολος (ἀλήθειαν λέγω ἐν Χριστῷ, οὐ ψεύδομαι), διδάσκαλος ἐθνῶν ἐν πίστει καὶ ἀληθείᾳ.
Nova Versão Internacional - Para isso fui designado pregador e apóstolo (Digo a verdade, não minto.), mestre da verdadeira fé aos gentios .
Hoffnung für alle - Und mich hat Gott zu seinem Apostel und Botschafter berufen. Das ist die Wahrheit, ich lüge nicht. Ich soll die Nichtjuden im Glauben unterweisen und ihnen Gottes Wahrheit verkünden.
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Ta đã được cử làm người truyền giáo và sứ đồ để công bố thông điệp ấy và dạy dỗ các dân tộc nước ngoài về đức tin và chân lý.
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - และเพื่อการนี้ข้าพเจ้าจึงได้รับแต่งตั้งให้เป็นผู้ป่าวประกาศและเป็นอัครทูต ข้าพเจ้ากำลังพูดจริง ไม่ได้โกหกเลย และข้าพเจ้าได้รับการแต่งตั้งให้เป็นครูสอนความเชื่ออันแท้จริงแก่บรรดาคนต่างชาติ
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - และด้วยเหตุนี้ข้าพเจ้าจึงได้รับการแต่งตั้งให้เป็นผู้ประกาศและเป็นอัครทูต ข้าพเจ้าพูดตามความจริง ไม่ได้โกหก ข้าพเจ้าเป็นครูสอนความเชื่อและความจริงแก่บรรดาคนนอก

交叉引用

1 Timothy 1:12 - I’m so grateful to Christ Jesus for making me adequate to do this work. He went out on a limb, you know, in trusting me with this ministry. The only credentials I brought to it were violence and witch hunts and arrogance. But I was treated mercifully because I didn’t know what I was doing—didn’t know Who I was doing it against! Grace mixed with faith and love poured over me and into me. And all because of Jesus.
Acts 26:17 - “‘I’m sending you off to open the eyes of the outsiders so they can see the difference between dark and light, and choose light, see the difference between Satan and God, and choose God. I’m sending you off to present my offer of sins forgiven, and a place in the family, inviting them into the company of those who begin real living by believing in me.’
Acts 22:21 - “But he said, ‘Don’t argue. Go. I’m sending you on a long journey to outsider non-Jews.’”
Galatians 3:9 - So those now who live by faith are blessed along with Abraham, who lived by faith—this is no new doctrine! And that means that anyone who tries to live by his own effort, independent of God, is doomed to failure. Scripture backs this up: “Utterly cursed is every person who fails to carry out every detail written in the Book of the law.”
Ecclesiastes 1:1 - These are the words of the Quester, David’s son and king in Jerusalem:
Ecclesiastes 1:2 - Smoke, nothing but smoke. [That’s what the Quester says.] There’s nothing to anything—it’s all smoke. What’s there to show for a lifetime of work, a lifetime of working your fingers to the bone? One generation goes its way, the next one arrives, but nothing changes—it’s business as usual for old planet earth. The sun comes up and the sun goes down, then does it again, and again—the same old round. The wind blows south, the wind blows north. Around and around and around it blows, blowing this way, then that—the whirling, erratic wind. All the rivers flow into the sea, but the sea never fills up. The rivers keep flowing to the same old place, and then start all over and do it again. Everything’s boring, utterly boring— no one can find any meaning in it. Boring to the eye, boring to the ear. What was will be again, what happened will happen again. There’s nothing new on this earth. Year after year it’s the same old thing. Does someone call out, “Hey, this is new”? Don’t get excited—it’s the same old story. Nobody remembers what happened yesterday. And the things that will happen tomorrow? Nobody’ll remember them either. Don’t count on being remembered.
Romans 11:13 - But I don’t want to go on about them. It’s you, the outsiders, that I’m concerned with now. Because my personal assignment is focused on the so-called outsiders, I make as much of this as I can when I’m among my Israelite kin, the so-called insiders, hoping they’ll realize what they’re missing and want to get in on what God is doing. If their falling out initiated this worldwide coming together, their recovery is going to set off something even better: mass homecoming! If the first thing the Jews did, even though it was wrong for them, turned out for your good, just think what’s going to happen when they get it right!
Ecclesiastes 1:12 - Call me “the Quester.” I’ve been king over Israel in Jerusalem. I looked most carefully into everything, searched out all that is done on this earth. And let me tell you, there’s not much to write home about. God hasn’t made it easy for us. I’ve seen it all and it’s nothing but smoke—smoke, and spitting into the wind.
Acts 14:27 - On arrival, they got the church together and reported on their trip, telling in detail how God had used them to throw the door of faith wide open so people of all nations could come streaming in. Then they settled down for a long, leisurely visit with the disciples.
Ecclesiastes 12:8 - It’s all smoke, nothing but smoke. The Quester says that everything’s smoke.
Ecclesiastes 12:9 - Besides being wise himself, the Quester also taught others knowledge. He weighed, examined, and arranged many proverbs. The Quester did his best to find the right words and write the plain truth.
Galatians 1:16 - Immediately after my calling—without consulting anyone around me and without going up to Jerusalem to confer with those who were apostles long before I was—I got away to Arabia. Later I returned to Damascus, but it was three years before I went up to Jerusalem to compare stories with Peter. I was there only fifteen days—but what days they were! Except for our Master’s brother James, I saw no other apostles. (I’m telling you the absolute truth in this.)
Romans 10:14 - But how can people call for help if they don’t know who to trust? And how can they know who to trust if they haven’t heard of the One who can be trusted? And how can they hear if nobody tells them? And how is anyone going to tell them, unless someone is sent to do it? That’s why Scripture exclaims, A sight to take your breath away! Grand processions of people telling all the good things of God! But not everybody is ready for this, ready to see and hear and act. Isaiah asked what we all ask at one time or another: “Does anyone care, God? Is anyone listening and believing a word of it?” The point is: Before you trust, you have to listen. But unless Christ’s Word is preached, there’s nothing to listen to.
John 7:35 - The Jews put their heads together. “Where do you think he is going that we won’t be able to find him? Do you think he is about to travel to the Greek world to teach the Jews? What is he talking about, anyway: ‘You will look for me, but you won’t find me,’ and ‘Where I am, you can’t come’?”
Romans 9:1 - At the same time, you need to know that I carry with me at all times a huge sorrow. It’s an enormous pain deep within me, and I’m never free of it. I’m not exaggerating—Christ and the Holy Spirit are my witnesses. It’s the Israelites . . . If there were any way I could be cursed by the Messiah so they could be blessed by him, I’d do it in a minute. They’re my family. I grew up with them. They had everything going for them—family, glory, covenants, revelation, worship, promises, to say nothing of being the race that produced the Messiah, the Christ, who is God over everything, always. Oh, yes!
Ephesians 3:7 - This is my life work: helping people understand and respond to this Message. It came as a sheer gift to me, a real surprise, God handling all the details. When it came to presenting the Message to people who had no background in God’s way, I was the least qualified of any of the available Christians. God saw to it that I was equipped, but you can be sure that it had nothing to do with my natural abilities.
Ephesians 3:8 - And so here I am, preaching and writing about things that are way over my head, the inexhaustible riches and generosity of Christ. My task is to bring out in the open and make plain what God, who created all this in the first place, has been doing in secret and behind the scenes all along. Through followers of Jesus like yourselves gathered in churches, this extraordinary plan of God is becoming known and talked about even among the angels!
Acts 9:15 - But the Master said, “Don’t argue. Go! I have picked him as my personal representative to non-Jews and kings and Jews. And now I’m about to show him what he’s in for—the hard suffering that goes with this job.”
2 Timothy 1:11 - This is the Message I’ve been set apart to proclaim as preacher, emissary, and teacher. It’s also the cause of all this trouble I’m in. But I have no regrets. I couldn’t be more sure of my ground—the One I’ve trusted in can take care of what he’s trusted me to do right to the end.

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交叉引用

新标点和合本 - 我为此奉派作传道的，作使徒，作外邦人的师傅，教导他们相信，学习真道。我说的是真话，并不是谎言。
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 我为此奉派作传道，作使徒，在信仰和真理上作外邦人的教师。我说的是真话，不是说谎。
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 我为此奉派作传道，作使徒，在信仰和真理上作外邦人的教师。我说的是真话，不是说谎。
当代译本 - 为此，我被指派做传道人和使徒，教导外族人认识信仰和真理。我说的是实话，并非谎言。
圣经新译本 - 为了这事，我也被派作传道的和使徒（我说的是真话，不是谎言），在信仰和真理上作外族人的教师。
中文标准译本 - 为此，我受指派做传道者和使徒，在信仰和真理上做外邦人的教师。我说的是真话，没有说谎。
现代标点和合本 - 我为此奉派做传道的，做使徒，做外邦人的师傅，教导他们相信，学习真道。我说的是真话，并不是谎言。
和合本（拼音版） - 我为此奉派作传道的，作使徒，作外邦人的师傅，教导他们相信，学习真道。我说的是真话，并不是谎言。
New International Version - And for this purpose I was appointed a herald and an apostle—I am telling the truth, I am not lying—and a true and faithful teacher of the Gentiles.
New International Reader's Version - I was appointed to be a messenger and an apostle to preach the good news. I am telling the truth. I’m not lying. God appointed me to be a true and faithful teacher of the Gentiles.
English Standard Version - For this I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
New Living Translation - And I have been chosen as a preacher and apostle to teach the Gentiles this message about faith and truth. I’m not exaggerating—just telling the truth.
Christian Standard Bible - For this I was appointed a herald, an apostle (I am telling the truth; I am not lying), and a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
New American Standard Bible - For this I was appointed as a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying), as a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
New King James Version - for which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle—I am speaking the truth in Christ and not lying—a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
Amplified Bible - And for this matter I was appointed a preacher and an apostle—I am telling the truth, I am not lying [when I say this]—a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
American Standard Version - whereunto I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I speak the truth, I lie not), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
King James Version - Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity.
New English Translation - For this I was appointed a preacher and apostle – I am telling the truth; I am not lying – and a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
World English Bible - 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.
新標點和合本 - 我為此奉派作傳道的，作使徒，作外邦人的師傅，教導他們相信，學習真道。我說的是真話，並不是謊言。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 我為此奉派作傳道，作使徒，在信仰和真理上作外邦人的教師。我說的是真話，不是說謊。
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 我為此奉派作傳道，作使徒，在信仰和真理上作外邦人的教師。我說的是真話，不是說謊。
當代譯本 - 為此，我被指派做傳道人和使徒，教導外族人認識信仰和真理。我說的是實話，並非謊言。
聖經新譯本 - 為了這事，我也被派作傳道的和使徒（我說的是真話，不是謊言），在信仰和真理上作外族人的教師。
呂振中譯本 - 為了這個、我被立做報信者、做使徒（我說實話，並不撒謊），在信仰和真理上做外國人的教師。
中文標準譯本 - 為此，我受指派做傳道者和使徒，在信仰和真理上做外邦人的教師。我說的是真話，沒有說謊。
現代標點和合本 - 我為此奉派做傳道的，做使徒，做外邦人的師傅，教導他們相信，學習真道。我說的是真話，並不是謊言。
文理和合譯本 - 我為此見立為使徒、為宣告者、以信以誠、為列邦之師、我言真而不誑也、○
文理委辦譯本 - 我宗基督言真而不偽、奉命為使徒、務傳斯道、教異邦人信主真理、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 我賴基督、言真而不偽、我為此道而特設為傳道者、為使徒、為異邦人之師、教之以信以真、○
吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 我之蒙簡為傳報福音之宗徒、而充列邦信德上、真道上、之導師者、實亦為此明證而已。吾作此言、實屬至誠而無妄也。
Nueva Versión Internacional - y para proclamarlo me nombró heraldo y apóstol. Digo la verdad y no miento: Dios me hizo maestro de los gentiles para enseñarles la verdadera fe.
현대인의 성경 - 나는 이 그리스도를 전하기 위해 전도자와 사도로 임명을 받았으며 믿음과 진리 안에서 이방인의 스승이 되었습니다. 이것은 거짓말이 아닌 사실입니다.
Новый Русский Перевод - Поэтому я и был поставлен глашатаем, апостолом и учителем истинной веры для других народов, и я говорю вам правду, не лгу.
Восточный перевод - Поэтому я и был поставлен глашатаем, посланником Масиха и учителем истинной веры для других народов, и я говорю вам правду, не лгу.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Поэтому я и был поставлен глашатаем, посланником аль-Масиха и учителем истинной веры для других народов, и я говорю вам правду, не лгу.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Поэтому я и был поставлен глашатаем, посланником Масеха и учителем истинной веры для других народов, и я говорю вам правду, не лгу.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - C’est pour publier ce témoignage que j’ai été institué prédicateur et apôtre (je dis la vérité, je ne mens pas), pour enseigner aux non-Juifs ce qui concerne la foi et la vérité.
リビングバイブル - この真理、つまり、救いは信仰によって与えられるという神の計画を外国人に伝えるために、私は伝道者また使徒として選ばれました。これは、うそ偽りのない事実です。
Nestle Aland 28 - εἰς ὃ ἐτέθην ἐγὼ κῆρυξ καὶ ἀπόστολος, ἀλήθειαν λέγω οὐ ψεύδομαι, διδάσκαλος ἐθνῶν ἐν πίστει καὶ ἀληθείᾳ.
unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - εἰς ὃ ἐτέθην ἐγὼ κῆρυξ καὶ ἀπόστολος (ἀλήθειαν λέγω ἐν Χριστῷ, οὐ ψεύδομαι), διδάσκαλος ἐθνῶν ἐν πίστει καὶ ἀληθείᾳ.
Nova Versão Internacional - Para isso fui designado pregador e apóstolo (Digo a verdade, não minto.), mestre da verdadeira fé aos gentios .
Hoffnung für alle - Und mich hat Gott zu seinem Apostel und Botschafter berufen. Das ist die Wahrheit, ich lüge nicht. Ich soll die Nichtjuden im Glauben unterweisen und ihnen Gottes Wahrheit verkünden.
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Ta đã được cử làm người truyền giáo và sứ đồ để công bố thông điệp ấy và dạy dỗ các dân tộc nước ngoài về đức tin và chân lý.
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - และเพื่อการนี้ข้าพเจ้าจึงได้รับแต่งตั้งให้เป็นผู้ป่าวประกาศและเป็นอัครทูต ข้าพเจ้ากำลังพูดจริง ไม่ได้โกหกเลย และข้าพเจ้าได้รับการแต่งตั้งให้เป็นครูสอนความเชื่ออันแท้จริงแก่บรรดาคนต่างชาติ
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - และด้วยเหตุนี้ข้าพเจ้าจึงได้รับการแต่งตั้งให้เป็นผู้ประกาศและเป็นอัครทูต ข้าพเจ้าพูดตามความจริง ไม่ได้โกหก ข้าพเจ้าเป็นครูสอนความเชื่อและความจริงแก่บรรดาคนนอก

1 Timothy 1:12 - I’m so grateful to Christ Jesus for making me adequate to do this work. He went out on a limb, you know, in trusting me with this ministry. The only credentials I brought to it were violence and witch hunts and arrogance. But I was treated mercifully because I didn’t know what I was doing—didn’t know Who I was doing it against! Grace mixed with faith and love poured over me and into me. And all because of Jesus.
Acts 26:17 - “‘I’m sending you off to open the eyes of the outsiders so they can see the difference between dark and light, and choose light, see the difference between Satan and God, and choose God. I’m sending you off to present my offer of sins forgiven, and a place in the family, inviting them into the company of those who begin real living by believing in me.’
Acts 22:21 - “But he said, ‘Don’t argue. Go. I’m sending you on a long journey to outsider non-Jews.’”
Galatians 3:9 - So those now who live by faith are blessed along with Abraham, who lived by faith—this is no new doctrine! And that means that anyone who tries to live by his own effort, independent of God, is doomed to failure. Scripture backs this up: “Utterly cursed is every person who fails to carry out every detail written in the Book of the law.”
Ecclesiastes 1:1 - These are the words of the Quester, David’s son and king in Jerusalem:
Ecclesiastes 1:2 - Smoke, nothing but smoke. [That’s what the Quester says.] There’s nothing to anything—it’s all smoke. What’s there to show for a lifetime of work, a lifetime of working your fingers to the bone? One generation goes its way, the next one arrives, but nothing changes—it’s business as usual for old planet earth. The sun comes up and the sun goes down, then does it again, and again—the same old round. The wind blows south, the wind blows north. Around and around and around it blows, blowing this way, then that—the whirling, erratic wind. All the rivers flow into the sea, but the sea never fills up. The rivers keep flowing to the same old place, and then start all over and do it again. Everything’s boring, utterly boring— no one can find any meaning in it. Boring to the eye, boring to the ear. What was will be again, what happened will happen again. There’s nothing new on this earth. Year after year it’s the same old thing. Does someone call out, “Hey, this is new”? Don’t get excited—it’s the same old story. Nobody remembers what happened yesterday. And the things that will happen tomorrow? Nobody’ll remember them either. Don’t count on being remembered.
Romans 11:13 - But I don’t want to go on about them. It’s you, the outsiders, that I’m concerned with now. Because my personal assignment is focused on the so-called outsiders, I make as much of this as I can when I’m among my Israelite kin, the so-called insiders, hoping they’ll realize what they’re missing and want to get in on what God is doing. If their falling out initiated this worldwide coming together, their recovery is going to set off something even better: mass homecoming! If the first thing the Jews did, even though it was wrong for them, turned out for your good, just think what’s going to happen when they get it right!
Ecclesiastes 1:12 - Call me “the Quester.” I’ve been king over Israel in Jerusalem. I looked most carefully into everything, searched out all that is done on this earth. And let me tell you, there’s not much to write home about. God hasn’t made it easy for us. I’ve seen it all and it’s nothing but smoke—smoke, and spitting into the wind.
Acts 14:27 - On arrival, they got the church together and reported on their trip, telling in detail how God had used them to throw the door of faith wide open so people of all nations could come streaming in. Then they settled down for a long, leisurely visit with the disciples.
Ecclesiastes 12:8 - It’s all smoke, nothing but smoke. The Quester says that everything’s smoke.
Ecclesiastes 12:9 - Besides being wise himself, the Quester also taught others knowledge. He weighed, examined, and arranged many proverbs. The Quester did his best to find the right words and write the plain truth.
Galatians 1:16 - Immediately after my calling—without consulting anyone around me and without going up to Jerusalem to confer with those who were apostles long before I was—I got away to Arabia. Later I returned to Damascus, but it was three years before I went up to Jerusalem to compare stories with Peter. I was there only fifteen days—but what days they were! Except for our Master’s brother James, I saw no other apostles. (I’m telling you the absolute truth in this.)
Romans 10:14 - But how can people call for help if they don’t know who to trust? And how can they know who to trust if they haven’t heard of the One who can be trusted? And how can they hear if nobody tells them? And how is anyone going to tell them, unless someone is sent to do it? That’s why Scripture exclaims, A sight to take your breath away! Grand processions of people telling all the good things of God! But not everybody is ready for this, ready to see and hear and act. Isaiah asked what we all ask at one time or another: “Does anyone care, God? Is anyone listening and believing a word of it?” The point is: Before you trust, you have to listen. But unless Christ’s Word is preached, there’s nothing to listen to.
John 7:35 - The Jews put their heads together. “Where do you think he is going that we won’t be able to find him? Do you think he is about to travel to the Greek world to teach the Jews? What is he talking about, anyway: ‘You will look for me, but you won’t find me,’ and ‘Where I am, you can’t come’?”
Romans 9:1 - At the same time, you need to know that I carry with me at all times a huge sorrow. It’s an enormous pain deep within me, and I’m never free of it. I’m not exaggerating—Christ and the Holy Spirit are my witnesses. It’s the Israelites . . . If there were any way I could be cursed by the Messiah so they could be blessed by him, I’d do it in a minute. They’re my family. I grew up with them. They had everything going for them—family, glory, covenants, revelation, worship, promises, to say nothing of being the race that produced the Messiah, the Christ, who is God over everything, always. Oh, yes!
Ephesians 3:7 - This is my life work: helping people understand and respond to this Message. It came as a sheer gift to me, a real surprise, God handling all the details. When it came to presenting the Message to people who had no background in God’s way, I was the least qualified of any of the available Christians. God saw to it that I was equipped, but you can be sure that it had nothing to do with my natural abilities.
Ephesians 3:8 - And so here I am, preaching and writing about things that are way over my head, the inexhaustible riches and generosity of Christ. My task is to bring out in the open and make plain what God, who created all this in the first place, has been doing in secret and behind the scenes all along. Through followers of Jesus like yourselves gathered in churches, this extraordinary plan of God is becoming known and talked about even among the angels!
Acts 9:15 - But the Master said, “Don’t argue. Go! I have picked him as my personal representative to non-Jews and kings and Jews. And now I’m about to show him what he’s in for—the hard suffering that goes with this job.”
2 Timothy 1:11 - This is the Message I’ve been set apart to proclaim as preacher, emissary, and teacher. It’s also the cause of all this trouble I’m in. But I have no regrets. I couldn’t be more sure of my ground—the One I’ve trusted in can take care of what he’s trusted me to do right to the end.