The Ignatius Catholic Study Bible New Testament (315 page)

   Distributes spiritual gives as he wills:
1 Cor 12:11

   Divine:
2 Cor 3:17-18

   Eternal:
Heb 9:14

   Fellowship of the Holy Spirit:
2 Cor 13:14

   Fruit of the Spirit:
Gal 5:22-23

   Gifts of the Spirit:
1 Cor 12:4-30
;
Heb 2:4

   Grieving the Holy Spirit:
Eph 4:30

   Guarantee or "down payment" of salvation:
2 Cor 1:22
;
Eph 1:14

   Guidance of the Church:
Jn 14:26
;
15:26
;
16:13-14
;
Acts 15:28

   Helps believers to pray:
Rom 8:26-27
;
Jude 20

   Indwells the baptized:
Jn 14:17
;
Acts 2:4
,
38
;
Rom 5:5
;
8:9
;
1 Cor 3:16
;
6:19
;
Heb 6:4

   Intercedes for us:
Rom 8:27

   Knows the thoughts of God as a man's spirit knows his thoughts:
1 Cor 2:10-11

   Makes us sons of God through Jesus Christ:
Rom 8:12-17
;
Gal 4:6-7

   Sent from the Father by the Son:
Jn 14:16
;
15:26

   Seal of the Holy Spirit:
2 Cor 1:22
;
Eph 1:13
;
4:30

   Speaks:
Acts 13:2
;
1 Cor 2:10
;
Gal 4:6
;
Heb 3:7-9
;
Rev 2:7

   Spirit of Christ:
Rom 8:9

   Spirit of the Father:
Mt 10:20

   Spirit of truth:
Jn 14:17
;
16:13

   Sword of the Spirit:
Eph 6:17

   Testimony about the Son:
Jn 15:26

   
See also
God; Jesus; Trinity

Homosexual acts

   Are sinful:
Rom 1:26-27
;
1 Cor 6:9-10
;
1 Tim 1:10
.

   
See also
Chastity; Sexual sin

Human nature.
See
Man

Hypocrisy

   Condemned by Jesus:
Mt 6:1-6
;
23:13-36

   To be avoided:
Jas 3:17
;
1 Pet 2:1

Idolatry

   Confusing the Creator with the created:
Acts 14:11-18
;
17:23-31
;
Rom 1:23
,
25
:
Rev 19:10

   Expressing the divine by using created forms is not idolatry, so long as the divine is not reduced to the created or confused with it:
Jn 1:14
;
Acts 7:56
;
Col 1:15
:
Rev 4:2-3
;
5:1
,
7
;
20:11

   Gravely sinful nature of idolatry:
Rom 1:23
,
25
;
1 Cor 5:11
;
10:14
,
19-21
;
2 Cor 6:16
;
Gal 5:20
:
1 Jn 5:21
;
Rev 9:20
;
21:8
;
22:15

   Idols are nothing in themselves but their link to false worship involves demonic beings:
1 Cor 8:4
,
10:19-21

   Involves treating any created thing—including creaturely pleasure—as if it were the supreme reality (God):
Eph 5:5
;
Col 3:5
;
1 Pet 4:3

   Leads to other sins:
Rom 1:26-31

Ignorance

   Can be a punishment for sin:
Eph 4:18
;
1 Pet 2:15

   Can excuse sin for those in good faith:
Jn 9:41
;
15:22
,
24
;
Acts 17:30
;
Rom 2:15
;
5:13

   Fails to excuse one otherwise blameworthy:
Lk 12:48

   Can lead to mercy from God:
Lk 23:34
;
Acts 3:17
;
17:30
;
1 Tim 1:13

   Can lead to sin:
Lk 23:34
;
Acts 3:17
;
Rom 10:3
;
2 Pet 2:12
;
3:16

   
See also
Conscience; Natural law; Sin

Immortality

   Divine immortality:
1 Tim 1:17
;
6:15-16

   Human immortality:
Lk 20:36
;
Rom 2:7
;
1 Cor 15:53
;
2 Cor 5:1-4
;
2 Tim 1:10

   
See also
Resurrection

Incarnation.
See
Jesus

Infant baptism

   Baptism is the sign of the New Covenant as circumcision (administered to infants) was sign of the Old Covenant:
Col 2:11-12

   Children included in the promise of baptism:
Acts 2:38-39

   Households (which generally included infants) baptized:
Acts 11:13-14
;
16:15
,
33
;
1 Cor 1:16

   Infants brought to Jesus for a blessing:
Mk 10:13-16
;
Lk 18:15
,
17

   New birth through baptism and the Spirit:
Jn 3:5

   
See also
Baptism

Intercession of the Saints

   Christians are said to have approached (entered into communion with) angels in heaven, the firstborn enrolled in heaven, and the spirits of just men made perfect:
Heb 12:1
,
22-24

   Moses and Elijah appear to Jesus and Peter, James, and John:
Mt 17:3-4
;
Mk 9:4-5
;
Lk 9:30-33

   Heavenly beings are aware of things on earth:
Lk 15:7
,
10
;
1 Tim 5:21
;
Rev 5:8
;
6:10
;
8:3

   Twenty-four elders in heaven intercede with God for Christians on earth:
Rev 5:8

   Angels offer to God the prayers of Christians on earth:
Rev 8:3

   
See also
Angels; Church; Saints

Jesus

   Alpha and Omega:
Rev 22:13

   Ascension of Jesus:
Mk 16:19
;
Lk 24:51
;
Acts 1:9-11
;
Heb 4:14
;
Rev 12:5

   Author of Life:
Acts 3:15

   Baptism of Jesus:
Mt 3:16-17
;
Mk 1:9-11
;
Lk 3:21-22
;
Jn 1:32-34

   Born in Bethlehem:
Mt 2:1
;
Lk 2:4-7

   Carpenter (Greek,
tekton
):
Mk 6:3

   Christ (Messiah; "Anointed One"):
Mt 1:1
;
16:16
;
26:63-64
;
Mk 1:1
;
8:29
;
Lk 2:11
;
9:20
;
24:26
;
Jn 1:17
;
17:3
;
Acts 2:36
;
Rom 1:1
;
Rev 11:15

   Church's guidance by Jesus:
Mt 23:10
;
28:20
;
Jn 14:20
;
17:21
,
23
:
Acts 9:3-6
;
Eph 1:22

   Creator:
Jn 1:3
;
1 Cor 8:6
;
Col 1:16
;
Heb 1:2
,
10-12
;
2:10
;
Rev 3:14
("beginning of God's creation" as in its source)

   David's descendant:
Mt 1:6-16
,
20
;
Mk 10:47-48
;
Lk 1:27
,
32
,
69
;
2:4
;
3:31
;
Jn 7:42
;
Rom 1:3
;
2 Tim 2:8
;
Rev 5:5
;
22:16

   Descent into hell:
1 Pet 3:18-20

   Died for the sins of all men:
Jn 3:16
;
Rom 5:18
;
2 Cor 5:14
;
1 Tim 2:3-6
;
4:10
;
Heb 2:9
;
9:28
;
1 Pet 3:18
;
1 Jn 2:1-2

   Eternal life:
Jn 17:3
;
1 Jn 1:2
;
5:20

   Exorcized demons:
Mt 8:31-32
;
15:22-28
;
Mk 1:25-26
;
5:8-13
;
Lk 11:18-22

   First-born (pre-eminent) of creation in his human nature:
Col 1:15

   First-born from the dead:
Col 1:18
;
Rev 1:5

   First-born Son of God:
Heb 1:6

   Forgives sins:
Mt 9:6
;
Mk 2:5
;
Lk 5:23-24
;
7:47-50
;
Jn 8:10-12
;
20:23

   Fullness of revelation:
Mt 11:25-27
;
24:35
;
Lk 10:22
;
Jn 1:1
,
9
,
14
,
17
;
14:9
;
Heb 1:1-3
;
Jude 3

   God (Greek, "theos"):
Mt 1:23
;
28:18
;
Jn 1:1
,
14
;
8:58
;
10:30
;
16:15
;
17:5
;
20:28
;
1 Cor 8:4-6
;
Phil 2:5-11
;
Col 1:19
;
2:9
;
1 Tim 1:17
;
Tit 2:13
;
Heb 1:2-4
,
5-14
;
Rev 22:13

   Good Shepherd:
Jn 10:11
,
14

   Grew in his human life and wisdom:
Lk 2:40

   Healing miracles:
Mt 4:23-24
;
9:2-8
,
18-25
,
27-30
;
Jn 11:38-44

   High priest and sacrifice present now in heaven:
Heb 4:14-15
;
5:5
,
10
;
9:11-14
,
24-27
;
10:11-12
,
21

   Holy One of God:
Mk 1:24
;
Lk 4:34
;
Jn 6:69
;
Rev 3:7

   Image of the Invisible God:
Col 1:15

   Incarnation:
Jn 1:1
,
14
;
Phil 2:5-11
;
1 Tim 3:16
;
Heb 10:5-7
;
1 Jn 1:1-3
;
4:2-3
;
2 Jn 7

   Jewish:
Mt 1:1-17
;
Mk 10:47-48
;
Lk 3:23-33
;
Jn 4:9
;
Rom 1:3
;
9:5
;
2 Tim 2:8

   Judge of the living and the dead:
Jn 5:22
;
Acts 10:42
;
1 Cor 4:4
;
2 Tim 4:1
,
8

   Kenosis:
Phil 2:7

   King of kings and Lord of lords:
1 Tim 6:15
;
Rev 17:14
;
19:16

   Lamb of God:
Jn 1:29
,
36
;
1 Cor 5:7
;
1 Pet 1:19
;
Rev 5:6
,
8
,
12-13
;
6:1
,
16
;
7:9
,
10
,
14
,
17
;
8:1
;
12:11
;
13:8
;
14:1
,
4
,
10
;
15:3
;
17:14
;
19:7
,
9
;
21:9
,
14
,
22
,
23
,
27
;
22:1
,
3

   Light of the world:
Jn 8:12
;
9:5

   Lord:
Rom 1:4
;
5:1
;
10:9
;
1 Cor 2:8
;
8:6
;
12:3
;
Eph 4:5
;
Phil 2:11
;
2 Thess 2:1
;
Jas 2:1
;
1 Pet 1:3
;
Jude 21

   Lord of the living and the dead:
Rom 14:9

   Makes us God's children through the Holy Spirit:
Jn 1:12
;
Rom 8:12-17
;
Gal 4:6-7

   Man:
Mt 1:20-21
;
Jn 1:14
;
Acts 2:22
;
17:31
;
Phil 2:7-8
;
1 Tim 2:5
;
3:16
;
2 Jn 7

   Mediator between God and man:
Jn 14:6
;
Rom 8:34
;
1 Tim 2:5
;
Heb 9:15
;
12:24
;
1 Jn 2:1-2

   Obedience to the Father out of love:
Mt 26:39-44
;
Jn 14:31
;
Heb 5:8

   Power of God:
1 Cor 1:24

   Pre-existent:
Jn 1:1
,
14
;
8:58
;
17:5
;
Phil 2:5-11

   Rock:
1 Cor 10:4
;
1 Pet 2:8

   Savior:
Lk 2:11
;
Jn 4:42
;
Acts 4:12
;
5:31
;
13:23
;
Eph 5:23
;
Phil 3:20
;
Tit 2:13
;
1 Jn 4:14

   Sinless:
Jn 8:46
;
2 Cor 5:21
;
Heb 4:15
;
1 Pet 2:22

   Son of God:
Mt 2:15
;
3:17
;
4:3
,
6
;
8:29
;
11:27
;
16:16
;
26:63
;
27:43
,
54
;
Mk 1:1
,
11
;
3:11
;
Lk 1:35
;
Jn 3:16
;
Rom 1:4
;
2 Cor 1:19
;
Heb 4:14
;
1 Jn 4:15
;
Rev 2:18

   Son of Man:
Mt 9:6
;
10:23
;
11:19
;
25:31
;
26:64
;
Mk 9:31
;
Jn 9:35-37
;
Acts 7:56
;
Rev 1:13

   Suffering:
Mt 26:28
,
67-68
;
27:28-31
,
34-36
,
44
,
46-50
;
Mk 14:33-41
,
65
;
15:17-20
,
23-37
;
Lk 22:42-45
,
63-65
;
23:11
,
22
,
32-46
;
Jn 19:1-3
,
5
,
16-18
,
28-30
;
Heb 5:7-8
;
12:2

   Tested by the devil:
Mt 4:1-11
;
Mk 1:12-13
;
Lk 4:1-13
:
Heb 2:18
;
4:15