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Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Exodus 28:1 OT

  “Bring Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, near to you from among the children of Israel, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office: Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s sons.

• Hebrews 5:4 NT

  Nobody takes this honor on himself, but he is called by God, just like Aaron was.

• Isaiah 6:5-7 OT

  Then I said, “Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell among a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Armies!” Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having a live coal in his…

• 2 Corinthians 3:5 NT

  not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,

• 2 Corinthians 3:6 NT

  who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

• Matthew 28:19 NT

  Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

• Acts 13:2 NT

  As they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, “Separate Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have called them.”

• Acts 13:4 NT

  So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia. From there they sailed to Cyprus.

• 2 Corinthians 10:8 NT

  For even if I boast somewhat abundantly concerning our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down, I will not be ashamed,

• 2 Corinthians 13:10 NT

  For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not deal sharply when present, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for tearing down.

• Romans 1:1 NT

  Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,

• 1 Thessalonians 2:4 NT

  But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak: not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.

• 2 Corinthians 5:20 NT

  We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

• 1 Corinthians 4:1 NT

  So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants, and stewards of God’s mysteries.

• Philippians 1:7 NT

  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.

• 2 Corinthians 4:5 NT

  For we don’t preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake,

• 2 Corinthians 1:10 NT

  who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver; on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;

• Matthew 9:37 NT

  Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest indeed is plentiful, but the laborers are few.

• Matthew 9:38 NT

  Pray therefore that the Lord of the harvest will send out laborers into his harvest.”

• Romans 10:14 NT

  How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher?

• Romans 10:15 NT

  And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Good News of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!”

• 1 Corinthians 3:7 NT

  So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.

• 1 Corinthians 15:10 NT

  But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

• 2 Corinthians 4:7 NT

  But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.