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Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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

• Romans 1:13-15 NT

  Now I don’t desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you, and was hindered so far, that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles. I am debtor both to Greeks and to…

• 1 Corinthians 9:16 NT

  For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about; for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me if I don’t preach the Good News.

• Isaiah 52:7 OT

  How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news, who proclaims salvation, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns!”

• Luke 9:59-62 NT

  He said to another, “Follow me!” But he said, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.” But Jesus said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but you go and announce God’s Kingdom.” Another also said, “I want to follow you,…

• Exodus 3:11 OT

  Moses said to God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?”

• Exodus 3:18 OT

  They will listen to your voice. You shall come, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and you shall tell him, ‘Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness,…

• Exodus 4:11 OT

  Yahweh said to him, “Who made man’s mouth? Or who makes one mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Isn’t it I, Yahweh?

• Exodus 4:12 OT

  Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall speak.”

• Exodus 4:15 OT

  You shall speak to him, and put the words in his mouth. I will be with your mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what you shall do.

• Isaiah 6:5-9 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…

• Jeremiah 1:7-9 OT

  But Yahweh said to me, “Don’t say, ‘I am a child;’ for you must go to whomever I send you, and you must say whatever I command you. Don’t be afraid because of them, for I am with you to rescue you,” says Yahweh. Then Yahweh stretched out…

• Jonah 1:3 OT

  But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid its fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh.

• Jonah 1:4 OT

  But Yahweh sent out a great wind on the sea, and there was a mighty storm on the sea, so that the ship was likely to break up.

• Matthew 10:16 NT

  “Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

• Isaiah 6:8 OT

  I heard the Lord’s voice, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here I am. Send me!”

• Romans 16:1 NT

  I commend to you Phoebe, our sister, who is a servant of the assembly that is at Cenchreae,

• Romans 16:2 NT

  that you receive her in the Lord, in a way worthy of the saints, and that you assist her in whatever matter she may need from you, for she herself also has been a helper of many, and of my own self.

• 2 Corinthians 11:9 NT

  When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn’t a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do…

• 3 John 1:1 NT

  The elder to Gaius the beloved, whom I love in truth.

• Galatians 2:9 NT

  and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, those who were reputed to be pillars, gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision.

• Ephesians 6:18 NT

  with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:

• Ephesians 6:19 NT

  on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in opening my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the Good News,

• Colossians 4:3 NT

  praying together for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds,

• Acts 15:3 NT

  They, being sent on their way by the assembly, passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles. They caused great joy to all the brothers.