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1 Timothy 1:15 (WEB)
The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.

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“Jesus invites sinners to the table of the kingdom: "I came not to call the righteous, but sinners."” — Catechism footnote: Mk 2:17; cf. l Tim 1:15.

Origen, Against Celsus I.63Book I
“Moreover, Paul, who himself also at a later time became an apostle of Jesus, says in his Epistle to Timothy, “This is a faithful saying, that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the chief.”” — editor's note: Cf. 1 Tim. i. 15.
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Gregory of Nyssa, Against Eunomius I.18Book I
“If, then, he were only proving that it is not right to confound the Persons, and to fit all the three names on to one Subject, his ‘saying’ would be, to use the Apostle’s words, ‘faithful, and worthy of all acceptation.’” — editor's note: 1 Timothy i. 15.
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Augustine of Hippo, Confessions IV.12Book IV
“And in this world He was, and into this world He came to save sinners, unto whom my soul doth confess, that He may heal it, for it hath sinned against Him.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. i. 15.
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Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 50
“Further, those Jews, boasting of their work, thus the same Apostle doth rebuke, in saying, that they to grace belonged not, who to their merits and their works thought that reward was owing.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. i. 15.
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Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 71
“Then a little afterwards, “Faithful the saying is, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am first.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. i. 15.
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Augustine of Hippo, On the Holy Trinity VII.3Book VII
“…Himself;” not by changing His own divinity, but by assuming our changeableness: and “taking upon Him the form of a servant” He came to us into this world,” who “was in this world,” because “the world was made by Him;” that He might be an example upwards to those who see God, an example downwards to those who…” — editor's note: 1 Tim. i. 15
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Athanasius of Alexandria, Festal and Personal Letters Festal Letters.2Festal Letters
“…and these should of right be our teachers, and to them only is it necessary to give heed, for of them only is ‘the word faithful and worthy of all acceptation;’ these not being disciples because they heard from others, but being eye-witnesses and ministers of the Word, that which they had heard from Him have they…” — editor's note: 1 Tim. i. 15.
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John Chrysostom, Homilies on John Homily 9
“Wherefore continually he treats of his persecution, his plottings, his wars against the Church, at one time saying, “I am not meet to be called an Apostle, because I persecuted the Church of God” ( 1 Cor. xv. 9 ); at another, “Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.” ( 1 Tim. i. 15.)” — the author cites it
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Basil the Great, Letters Letter 230
“…it has from of old been under the government of men right honourable and the elect of God, who have held fast to “the faithful word as we have been taught.”” — editor's note: Tit. i. 9. cf. 1 Tim. i. 15; 1 Tim. iii. 1; 2 Tim. ii. 11; and Tit. iii. 8.
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Jerome, Letters Letter 27
“Our version, therefore, is, it is “a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. i. 15.
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Tertullian, On Modesty Chapter 18
“For, when affirming that Christ came for this end, that He might save sinners, of whom himself had been the “first,” what does he add?” — editor's note: See 1 Tim. i. 15.
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John Cassian, On the Incarnation of the Lord, Against Nestorius IV.7Book IV
“And the Apostle says: “This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation; that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. i. 15.
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Leo the Great, Sermons Sermon 59
“Let us, then, dearly-beloved, confess what the blessed teacher of the nations, the Apostle Paul, confessed, saying, “Faithful is the saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. i. 15.
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