1 Timothy 2:5 BSB — MannaFest

1 Timothy 2:5

For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

BSB

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ASV

For there is one God, one mediator also between God and men, himself man, Christ Jesus,

KJV

For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;

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Commentary

4 voices

Ambrose of Milan

Exposition of the Christian Faith 3.2.8 (397)

But what is he who is at once the Most High and man, what but "the Mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus who gave himself as a ransom for us"? This text indeed refers properly to his incarnation, for our redemption was made by his blood, our pardon comes through his power, our life is secured through his grace. He gives as the Most High; he prays as man. The one is the office of the Creator; the other of a redeemer.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

For - The fourth verse is proved by the fifth; the first, by the fourth. There is one God - And they who have not him, through the one Mediator, have no God. One mediator also - We could not rejoice that there is a God, were there not a mediator also; one who stands between God and men, to reconcile man to God, and to transact the whole affair of our salvation.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

(5.) He that is a Mediator in the New-Testament sense, gave himself a ransom. Vain then is the pretence of the Romanists that there is but one Mediator of satisfaction, but many of intercession; for, according to Paul, Christ's giving himself a ransom was a necessary part of the Mediator's office; and indeed this lays the foundation for his intercession.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

For there is one God - This is a reason for offering prayer for all people, and for the declaration 1Ti 2:4 that God desires that all people should be saved. The reason is founded in the fact that he is the common Father of all the race, and that he must have the same desire for the welfare of all his children, He has made them of one blood Act 17:26, and he must have the same interest in the happiness of all; compare Eph 4:6 note; Rom 3:30 note.

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Εἷς	Heis	One	G1520 →
γὰρ	gar	for	G1063 →
θεός,	theos	God [there is],	G2316 →
εἷς	heis	one	G1520 →
καὶ	kai	then	G2532 →
μεσίτης	mesitēs	mediator	G3316 →
θεοῦ	theou	between God	G2316 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἀνθρώπων,	anthrōpōn	men,	G444 →
ἄνθρωπος	anthrōpos	[the] man	G444 →
Χριστὸς	Christos	Christ	G5547 →
Ἰησοῦς	Iēsous	Jesus	G2424 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Deuteronomy 6:4
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is One.
leads to
- Mark 12:29–32
  Jesus replied, “This is the most important: ‘Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One.
- Isaiah 44:6
  Thus says the LORD, the King and Redeemer of Israel, the LORD of Hosts: “I am the first and I am the last, and there is no God but Me.
- Isaiah 45:5–6
  I am the LORD, and there is no other; there is no God but Me. I will equip you for battle, though you have not known Me,
Through
Hebrews 7:25
Therefore He is able to save completely those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to intercede for them.
leads to
- Romans 8:34
  Who is there to condemn us? For Christ Jesus, who died, and more than that was raised to life, is at the right hand of God—and He is interceding for us.
- 1 John 2:1–2
  My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate before the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.
Through
1 Corinthians 8:6
yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we exist. And there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and…
leads to
- Romans 11:36
  For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever! Amen.
Through
Hebrews 9:15
Therefore Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, now that He has died to redeem them from the transgressions committed under…
leads to
- Romans 3:24–26
  and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
- Romans 8:30
  And those He predestined, He also called; those He called, He also justified; those He justified, He also glorified.

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