Taken from the HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION (C) 1978 by the New

York Bible Society, used by permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers.

The Torrey Collection - Chapter 13

 

 

XIII. THE BEST TEXTS FOR MORMONS

1. One God, transcendent to man

ISA 42:8 I am the LORD; that is my name! I will not give my glory to

another or my praise to idols.

ISA 44:6-8 "This is what the LORD says--Israel's King and Redeemer,

the LORD Almighty: I am the first and I am the last; apart from me

there is no God. Who then is like me? Let him proclaim it. Let him

declare and lay out before me what has happened since I established my

ancient people, and what is yet to come--yes, let him foretell what

will come. Do not tremble, do not be afraid. Did I not proclaim this

and foretell it long ago? You are my witnesses. Is there any God

besides me? No, there is no other Rock; I know not one."

HOS 11:9 I am God, and not man--the Holy One among you.

 

2. Christ the only Savior

ACT 4:10-12 It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you

crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands

before you healed. . .Salvation is found in no one else, for there is

no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved."

JOH 3:36 Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever

rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on him."

GAL 1:3-4 Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord

Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the

present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,

 

3. The sinfulness of man

ECC 7:20 There is not a righteous man on earth who does what is right

and never sins.

ROM 3:22-24 This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus

Christ to all who believe. There is no difference, for all have sinned

and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his

grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.

ROM 5:12 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and

death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all

sinned.

ROM 3:10-12 There is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one

who understands, no one who seeks God. All have turned away, they have

together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.

 

4. Salvation by faith, not works

ROM 1:17 For in the gospel a righteousness from God is revealed, a

righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is

written: "The righteous will live by faith."

GAL 3:10-11 All who rely on observing the law are under a curse, for

it is written: "Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do

everything written in the Book of the Law." Clearly no one is justified

before God by the law, because, "The righteous will live by faith."

TIT 3:4-5 But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared,

he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because

of his mercy.

EPH 2:8-9 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith--and

this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God--not by works, so that

no one can boast.

JOH 6:28-29 Then they asked him, "What must we do to do the works God

requires?" Jesus answered, "The work of God is this: to believe in the

one he has sent."

 

5. Priesthood of believers and high priesthood of Christ

1PE 2:4-5 As you come to him, the living Stone--rejected by men but

chosen by God and precious to him--you also, like living stones, are

being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering

spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

HEB 7:17-22, 25 For it is declared: "You are a priest forever, in the

order of Melchizedek." The former regulation is set aside because it

was weak and useless (for the law made nothing perfect), and a better

hope is introduced, by which we draw near to God. And it was not

without an oath! Others became priests without any oath, but he became

a priest with an oath when God said to him: "The Lord has sworn and

will not change his mind: 'You are a priest forever.'" Because of this

oath, Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.

Therefore he is able to save completely those who come to God through

him, because he always lives to intercede for them.

1TI 2:3-6 This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all men

to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. For there is one

God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who

gave himself as a ransom for all men--the testimony given in its proper

time.

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