Missionaries, All Christians Should Be As

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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

• Acts 10:38 NT

  even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

• Psalms 8:2 OT

  From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength, because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.

• Proverbs 31:26 OT

  She opens her mouth with wisdom. Kind instruction is on her tongue.

• Matthew 21:15 NT

  But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children who were crying in the temple and saying, “Hosanna to the son of David!” they were indignant,

• Matthew 21:16 NT

  and said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” Jesus said to them, “Yes. Did you never read, ‘Out of the mouth of babes and nursing babies you have perfected praise?’ ”

• Philippians 4:3 NT

  Yes, I beg you also, true partner, help these women, for they labored with me in the Good News with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.

• 1 Timothy 5:10 NT

  being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.

• Titus 2:3-5 NT

  and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good, that they may train the young wives to love their husbands, to love their children, to be sober minded,…

• 1 Peter 3:1 NT

  In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word,

• Jeremiah 7:18 OT

  The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

• Matthew 23:15 NT

  Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel around by sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of Gehenna as yourselves.

• Judges 5:23 OT

  ‘Curse Meroz,’ said Yahweh’s angel. ‘Curse bitterly its inhabitants, because they didn’t come to help Yahweh, to help Yahweh against the mighty.’

• Luke 19:40 NT

  He answered them, “I tell you that if these were silent, the stones would cry out.”

• 2 Corinthians 5:14 NT

  For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.

• 2 Corinthians 5:15 NT

  He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

• 1 Corinthians 1:27 NT

  but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world that he might put to shame the things that are strong.

• Exodus 19:6 OT

  and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation.’ These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.”

• 1 Peter 2:9 NT

  But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

• 1 Peter 4:10 NT

  As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.

• 1 Peter 4:11 NT

  If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion…

• Psalms 71:17 OT

  God, you have taught me from my youth. Until now, I have declared your wondrous works.

• Psalms 148:12 OT

  both young men and maidens; old men and children:

• Psalms 148:13 OT

  let them praise Yahweh’s name, for his name alone is exalted. His glory is above the earth and the heavens.

• Deuteronomy 32:7 OT

  Remember the days of old. Consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you.