Missionaries, All Christians Should Be As

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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• Psalms 71:18 OT

  Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don’t forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.

• Deuteronomy 6:7 OT

  and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.

• Psalms 78:5-8 OT

  For he established a covenant in Jacob, and appointed a teaching in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children; that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born;…

• Isaiah 38:19 OT

  The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do today. The father shall make known your truth to the children.

• 1 Corinthians 7:16 NT

  For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

• Matthew 5:16 NT

  Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

• Philippians 2:15 NT

  that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

• Philippians 2:16 NT

  holding up the word of life, that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.

• 1 Peter 2:12 NT

  having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

• 2 Corinthians 8:5 NT

  This was not as we had expected, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God.

• Psalms 66:16 OT

  Come and hear, all you who fear God. I will declare what he has done for my soul.

• Psalms 116:16-19 OT

  Yahweh, truly I am your servant. I am your servant, the son of your servant girl. You have freed me from my chains. I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call on Yahweh’s name. I will pay my vows to Yahweh, yes, in…

• Luke 14:26 NT

  “If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.

• Matthew 10:32 NT

  Everyone therefore who confesses me before men, I will also confess him before my Father who is in heaven.

• Luke 14:27 NT

  Whoever doesn’t bear his own cross, and come after me, can’t be my disciple.

• Luke 18:22 NT

  When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have, and distribute it to the poor. Then you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.”

• 1 Corinthians 2:2 NT

  For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

• Hebrews 10:34 NT

  For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.

• Luke 5:11 NT

  When they had brought their boats to land, they left everything, and followed him.

• 1 Thessalonians 1:7 NT

  so that you became an example to all who believe in Macedonia and in Achaia.

• Psalms 119:46 OT

  I will also speak of your statutes before kings, and will not be disappointed.

• Joshua 24:15 OT

  If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will…

• Psalms 27:4 OT

  One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life, to see Yahweh’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.

• 1 Chronicles 29:2 OT

  Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for the things of gold, the silver for the things of silver, the bronze for the things of bronze, iron for the things of iron, and wood for the things of wood; also…