From Nave’s Topical Bible
Confession
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 20Passages listed
- 7Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- OF CHRISTMatthew 3:11Matthew 7:21–23Matthew 10:32Matthew 10:33Luke 12:8John 1:15–18John 9:22–38John 12:42John 12:43Acts 8:35–37Acts 18:5Acts 19:4Acts 19:5Romans 10:9–111 Corinthians 12:31 John 1:61 John 2:41 John 4:21 John 4:31 John 4:15
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- OF SIN
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The passages, in Bible order (20)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Matthew 3:11
I baptize you with water for repentance, but after me will come One more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.
Commentary on Matthew 3:112 voices
(Verse 10, 11.) For now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire. I indeed baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I. The preaching of the Gospel word, which is sharp on both sides, is called an axe, according to the prophet Jeremiah, who compares the word of the Lord to an axe cutting through a rock (Jeremiah 46). Whose shoes I am not worthy to bear.
Jerome· Commentary on Matthew, 420Patristic
In the other Gospels it is, whose shoe latchet I am not worthy to loose. Here his humility, there his ministry is intended; Christ is the Bridegroom, and John is not worthy to loose the Bridegroom's shoe, that his house be not called according to the Law of Moses and the example of Ruth, The house of him that hath his shoe loosed. (Deut. 25:10.)
Jerome· Catena Aurea by Aquinas, 420Patristic
- Matthew 7:21–23
Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
Commentary on Matthew 7:21–231 voice
(Verse 21.) Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. As he said before, those who have a garment of good life should not be received on account of the wickedness of their teachings: so now he asserts the opposite, that even faith should not be given to those who, although they possess the integrity of faith, live wickedly and destroy the integrity of doctrine with evil deeds.
Jerome· Commentary on Matthew, 420Patristic
- Matthew 10:32
Therefore everyone who confesses Me before men, I will also confess him before My Father in heaven.
Commentary on Matthew 10:321 voice
If to flee, how to suffer? If to suffer, how to flee? In fact, what utter inconsistency in the decrees of One who commands to flee, and yet urges to suffer, which is the very opposite! "Him who will confess Me, I also will confess before My Father." How will he confess, fleeing? How flee, confessing? "Of him who shall be ashamed of Me, will I also be ashamed before My Father.
Tertullian· On Flight in Persecution, 220Patristic
- Matthew 10:33
But whoever denies Me before men, I will also deny him before My Father in heaven.
Commentary on Matthew 10:331 voice
I refer to the bird which is peculiar to the East, famous for its singularity, marvelous from its posthumous life, which renews its life in a voluntary death; its dying day is its birthday, for on it it departs and returns; once more a phoenix where just now there was none; once more himself, but just now out of existence; another, yet the same. What can be more express and more significant for our subject; or to what other thing can such a phenomenon bear witness?
Tertullian· On the Resurrection of the Flesh, 220Patristic
- Luke 12:8
I tell you, everyone who confesses Me before men, the Son of Man will also confess him before the angels of God.
Commentary on Luke 12:81 voice
He has also well introduced faith, stimulating us to its confession, and to faith itself He has placed virtue as a foundation. For as faith is the incentive to fortitude, so is fortitude the strong support of faith.
Ambrose of Milan· Catena Aurea by Aquinas, 397Patristic
- John 1:15–18
John testified concerning Him. He cried out, saying, “This is He of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me because He was before me.’”
Commentary on John 1:15–181 voice
This was He of Whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred [has become] before me, for He was before me. Having named the witness same-minded and same-named with himself, and having shown that he used a great voice for the service of his preaching, he profitably adds the mode too of his testimony: for it is in this in particular that the whole question lies. What then do we find the great John crying regarding the Only-Begotten? He that cometh after me has become before me for He was before me.
Cyril of Alexandria· Commentary on the Gospel of John, Book 1, 444Patristic
- John 9:22–38
His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews. For the Jews had already determined that anyone who confessed Jesus as the Christ would be put out of the synagogue.
- John 12:42
Nevertheless, many of the leaders believed in Him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess Him, for fear that they would be put out of the synagogue.
Commentary on John 12:421 voice
Now, however, when constrained by the signs to believe and no longer daring to gainsay the Lord, they fail of eternal life through the persistence of their own abominable perversity in esteeming their position in the eyes of men higher than their relationship to God, and in being slaves of a temporal glory, deeming it an intolerable loss to fail of honour at the hands of the Pharisees. Forasmuch therefore as this was what hindered them from believing, hear what the Christ says...
Cyril of Alexandria· Commentary on the Gospel of John, Book 8 (Fragments), 444Patristic
- John 12:43
For they loved praise from men more than praise from God.
Commentary on John 12:431 voice
When we are persecuted, let us not think it strange; let us not love the present world, nor the praises which come from men, nor the glory and honour of rulers, according as some of the Jews wondered at the mighty works of our Lord, yet did not believe on Him, for fear of the high priests and the rest of the rulers: "For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God."
Apostolic Constitutions· Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book 5, 380Patristic
- Acts 8:35–37
Then Philip began with this very Scripture and told him the good news about Jesus.
Commentary on Acts 8:35–371 voice
But Philip opening his mouth, etc. Philip interpreted means 'the mouth of a lamp,' and it is a beautiful sense that the mouth of a lamp opened its mouth, while it brought forth the obscure things of prophecy into the light of knowledge. Although these …
Bede· Commentary on Acts, 735Patristic
- Acts 18:5
And when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul devoted himself fully to the word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus is the Christ.
Commentary on Acts 18:51 voice
"And when Silas and Timothy were come from Macedonia, they were earnest that Paul's preaching," etc. When Silas and Timothy were come from Macedonia to Corinth, where Paul was, he was earnestly teaching the word of the Lord; but as some Jews would not listen, …
Cassiodorus· Complexiones on the Acts of the Apostles, 585Patristic
- Acts 19:4
Paul explained: “John’s baptism was a baptism of repentance. He told the people to believe in the One coming after him, that is, in Jesus.”
- Acts 19:5
On hearing this, they were baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus.
Commentary on Acts 19:51 voice
Of the existence of the Holy Spirit … we are taught in many passages of Scripture. For instance, David says in the fiftieth psalm, "And take not your Holy Spirit from me," and in Daniel it is said, "The Holy Spirit, who is in you."
Origen of Alexandria· ON FIRST PRINCIPLES 1.3.2, 253Patristic
- Romans 10:9–11
that if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
Commentary on Romans 10:9–111 voice
For as it was not possible that the man who had once for all been conquered, and who had been destroyed through disobedience, could reform himself, and obtain the prize of victory; and as it was also impossible that he could attain to salvation who had fallen under the power of sin,-the Son effected both these things, being the Word of God, descending from the Father, becoming incarnate, stooping low, even to death, and consummating the arranged plan of our salvation, upon whom [Paul], exhorting us unhesitatingly to believe, again says, "Who shall ascend into heaven? that is, to bring down Christ; or who shall descend into the deep? that is, to liberate Christ again from the dead."
Irenaeus· Against Heresies Book III, 202Patristic
- 1 Corinthians 12:3
Therefore I inform you that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus be cursed,” and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.
Commentary on 1 Corinthians 12:31 voice
If two yardsticks are compared with each other, their straightness is in agreement. But if a distorted piece of wood is compared with a ruler, the crooked one will be at variance with the straight. Since, therefore, the praise of God is righteous, there is need of a righteous heart, in order that the praise may be fitting and adapted to it. "No one can say 'Jesus is Lord,' except in the Holy Spirit." So how can one offer due praise if one does not have the right spirit in one's heart? HOMILY 15.
Basil of Caesarea· ON PSALM 32, 379Patristic
- 1 John 1:6
If we say we have fellowship with Him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.
Commentary on 1 John 1:61 voice
...the apostles who did also write the Gospel, in which they recorded the doctrine regarding God, pointing out that our Lord Jesus Christ is the truth, and that no lie is in Him. As also David says, prophesying His birth from a virgin, and the resurrection from the dead, "Truth has sprung out of the earth." The apostles, likewise, being disciples of the truth, are above all falsehood; for a lie has no fellowship with the truth, just as darkness has none with light, but the presence of the one shuts out that of the other.
Irenaeus· Against Heresies Book III, 202Patristic