1 Timothy 2:4
Good News Translation
who wants everyone to be saved and to come to know the truth.

New Revised Standard Version
who desires everyone to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Contemporary English Version
God wants everyone to be saved and to know the whole truth, which is,

New American Bible
who wills everyone to be saved and to come to knowledge of the truth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who will have all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Who will have all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

will.

Isaiah 45:22 Be converted to me, and you shall be saved, all ye ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is no other.

Isaiah 49:6 And he said: It is a small thing that thou shouldst be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to convert the dregs of Israel. Behold, I have given thee to be the light of the Gentiles, that thou mayst be my salvation even to the farthest part of the earth.

Isaiah 55:1 All you that thirst, come to the waters: and you that have no money make haste, buy, and eat: come ye, buy wine and milk without money, and without any price.

Ezekiel 18:23,32 Is it my will that a sinner should die, saith the Lord God, and not that he should be converted from his ways, and live? . . .

Ezekiel 33:11 Say to them: As I live, saith the Lord God, I desire not the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way, and live. Turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways: and why will you die, O house of Israel?

Luke 14:23 And the Lord said to the servant: Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.

John 3:15-17 That whosoever believeth in him may not perish, but may have life everlasting. . . .

John 6:37 All that the Father giveth to me shall come to me: and him that cometh to me, I will not cast out.

Romans 3:29,30 Is he the God of the Jews only? Is he not also of the Gentiles? yes, of the Gentiles also. . . .

2 Corinthians 5:17-19 If then any be in Christ a new creature, the old things are passed away. Behold all things are made new. . . .

1 Thessalonians 2:15,16 Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and the prophets, and have persecuted us, and please not God, and are adversaries to all men; . . .

Titus 2:11 For the grace of God our Saviour hath appeared to all men:

2 Peter 3:9 The Lord delayeth not his promise, as some imagine, but dealeth patiently for your sake, not willing that any should perish, but that all should return to penance,

and.

Matthew 28:19 Going therefore, teach ye all nations: baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.

Mark 16:15 And he said to them: Go ye into the whole world and preach the gospel to every creature.

Luke 24:47 And that penance and remission of sins should be preached in his name, unto all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

Romans 10:12-15 For there is no distinction of the Jew and the Greek: for the same is Lord over all, rich unto all that call upon him. . . .

Revelation 14:6 And I saw another angel flying through the midst of heaven, having the eternal gospel, to preach unto them that sit upon the earth and over every nation and tribe and tongue and people:

the knowledge.

Isaiah 53:11 Because his soul hath laboured, he shall see and be filled: by his knowledge shall this my just servant justify many, and he shall bear their iniquities.

Habakkuk 2:14 For the earth shall be filled, that men may know the glory of the Lord, as waters covering the sea.

Luke 1:77 To give knowledge of salvation to his people, unto the remission of their sins.

John 14:6 Jesus saith to him: I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Father, but by me.

John 17:17 Sanctify them in truth. Thy word is truth.

2 Timothy 2:25 With modesty admonishing them that resist the truth: if peradventure God may give them repentance to know the truth;

2 Timothy 3:7 Ever learning, and never attaining to the knowledge of the truth.

Hebrews 10:26 For if we sin wilfully after having the knowledge of the truth, there is now left no sacrifice for sins:

Context
A Call to Prayer
3For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour, 4Who will have all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. 5For there is one God: and one mediator of God and men, the man Christ Jesus:…
Cross References
Ezekiel 18:23
Is it my will that a sinner should die, saith the Lord God, and not that he should be converted from his ways, and live?

Ezekiel 18:32
For I desire not the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God, return ye and live.

Ezekiel 33:11
Say to them: As I live, saith the Lord God, I desire not the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way, and live. Turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways: and why will you die, O house of Israel?

John 3:17
For God sent not his Son into the world, to judge the world: but that the world may be saved by him.

Romans 11:14
If, by any means, I may provoke to emulation them who are my flesh and may save some of them.

1 Timothy 4:10
For therefore we labour and are reviled, because we hope in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, especially of the faithful.

2 Timothy 2:25
With modesty admonishing them that resist the truth: if peradventure God may give them repentance to know the truth;

2 Timothy 3:7
Ever learning, and never attaining to the knowledge of the truth.

Titus 1:1
Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the elect of God and the acknowledging of the truth, which is according to godliness:

Titus 2:11
For the grace of God our Saviour hath appeared to all men:

Hebrews 10:26
For if we sin wilfully after having the knowledge of the truth, there is now left no sacrifice for sins:

James 3:14
But if you have bitter zeal, and there be contention in your hearts: glory not and be not liars against the truth.

2 Peter 3:9
The Lord delayeth not his promise, as some imagine, but dealeth patiently for your sake, not willing that any should perish, but that all should return to penance,

2 John 1:1
The Ancient to the lady Elect and her children, whom I love in the truth: and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth,

1 Timothy 2:3
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