The Ignatius Catholic Study Bible New Testament (313 page)

   Resurrection:
see
Resurrection

   Some Christians go on to be with Christ:
2 Cor 5:8
;
Phil 1:23

   Some Christians undergo purgation:
see
Purgatory

Devil

   Ancient serpent:
Rev 12:9
;
20:2

   Appears as angel of light in order to deceive:
2 Cor 11:14

   Behind Judas' betrayal of Jesus:
Lk 22:3
;
Jn 6:70-71
;
13:2

   Capable of possessing a human being by means of demons:
Mt 8:28-34
;
15:22
;
Mk 1:23-28
;
5:1-20
;
Lk 11:14-20
;
Acts 19:13-16

   Cast into the lake of fire:
Rev 20:10

   Defeated by Christ:
1 Jn 3:8

   Devil has angels under his control:
Mt 25:41

   Enemy of the Christian:
Eph 6:11
;
1 Pet 5:8

   Fallen angel:
Lk 10:18

   Murderer from the beginning:
Jn 8:44

   Satan:
Rev 12:9

   Tempted Christ:
Mt 4:1-11
;
Mk 1:13
;
Lk 4:2-13

   
See also
Angels

Discernment of spirits

   Spiritual gift enabling the possessor to distinguish divine activities from merely natural or diabolical activities:
1 Cor 12:10
;
1 Jn 4:1-6

Divorce:
Mt 5:31-32
;
19:3-9
("except" clause);
Mk 10:2-12
;
Lk 16:18
;
1 Cor 7:10-16

   
See also
Adultery; Marriage

Divinity of Christ.
See
Jesus

Drunkenness

   Can lead to damnation:
1 Cor 6:10
;
Gal 5:21

   Contrary to Christian living:
1 Cor 5:11
;
Eph 5:18
;
1 Pet 4:3

   Impairs one's alertness to imminent judgment:
Mt 24:49
;
Lk 21:34
;
Rom 13:13

   Not all use of alcoholic drinks is wrong:
Mt 26:27-29
;
Mk 14:23-25
;
Lk 7:33-34
;
22:17-18
,
20
;
Jn 2:3-10
;
1 Tim 5:23

Elders

   NT office of elder ("presbyter" or, later, "priest"):
Acts 15:2
,
6
,
22-23
;
1 Tim 4:14
;
5:17-19
;
Tit 1:5
;
1 Pet 5:1-5
;
Jas 5:14-15
;
2 Jn 1
;
3 Jn 1

   Twenty-four elders in heaven:
Rev 4:4
,
10
;
5:5-6
,
8
,
11
,
14
;
7:11
,
13
;
11:16
;
14:3
;
19:4

Election

   Baptized persons must confirm their election:
2 Pet 1:10

   Israel's election by grace:
Rom 11:28

   God's New People:
1 Pet 2:9-10

   Paul's election:
Gal 1:15

   Paul's suffering for the sake of the elect:
2 Tim 2:10

   
See
Freedom; Grace; Predestination

Envy

   Can lead to damnation:
Gal 5:21

   Defiles a man:
Mk 7:21-22

   Incompatible with Christian discipleship:
Gal 5:26
;
1 Pet 2:1

   Motive of Jesus' enemies in condemning him:
Mt 27:18
;
Mk 15:10

Eternal Life

   Attained by keeping the commandments:
Mt 19:16-17
;
25:46
;
Lk 10:25-28
;
Jn 12:50
;
Rom 2:7

   Attained through faith in Jesus:
Jn 3:15-16
,
36
;
17:3
;
Rom 5:21

   Assurance of eternal life, if one abides in Jesus, which includes obedience:
Jn 6:54-56
;
8:51
;
1 Jn 2:24-25
;
3:14
;
5:13

   Future reality that is to be obtained through fidelity in this life:
Mt 25:46
;
1 Tim 6:12
;
1 Jn 2:24-25

   Gift of Jesus:
Jn 10:27-28
;
Rom 6:23

   Harvest of the Holy Spirit:
Gal 6:8

   Hope of eternal life:
Tit 1:2
;
3:7

   Jesus himself is called eternal life or is closely identified with it:
Jn 11:25
;
17:3
;
1 Jn 1:2
;
5:11
,
20

   Kind of life that of itself is not subject to ending, unless repudiated through disobedience in this life:
Jn 3:36
;
4:14
;
6:27
;
10:28
;
12:50
;
Rom 2:7
;
Gal 6:8
;
1 Jn 3:15
;
Jude 21

   Lost through disobedience and unbelief:
Jn 3:36
;
Acts 13:46
;
2 Tim 2:12
;
1 Jn 3:15

   Participation in eternal life now in a limited, provisional way through faith in Jesus:
Jn 5:24
;
6:47
;
1 Jn 5:13

   Participation in eternal life now in a limited, provisional way through the Eucharist:
Jn 6:54

   Promised to those who remain faithful:
1 Jn 2:25
;
Jude 21
;
Rev 2:10

   Reward of love:
1 Cor 2:9
;
2 Tim 4:8
;
Jas 1:12
;
2:5

   Sanctification's goal:
Rom 6:22

   
See also
Resurrection; Salvation

Eucharist, Sacrament of the Holy

   Body and Blood of Christ:
Mt 26:26-29
;
Mk 14:22-25
;
Lk 22:19-20
;
1 Cor 11:23-26

   Bread from heaven:
Jn 6:33
,
50-51

   Bread of Life:
Jn 6:35
,
38
,
51

   Compared and contrasted with pagan and Jewish sacrifices:
1 Cor 10:18-21
;
Heb 13:10

   Danger of unworthy reception of the Eucharist:
1 Cor 11:27-30

   Death of the Lord is proclaimed by the Eucharist:
1 Cor 11:26

   Flesh and blood of Jesus:
Jn 6:51
; 53-56

   Judas' rejection of the Eucharist:
Jn 6:64

   Necessity of eating the Flesh of Jesus and drinking his Blood:
Jn 6:51
,
53-58

   Participation in (communion with) the Body and the Blood of Christ:
1 Cor 10:16-17
,
21

   Sacrifice:
Mt 26:26-29
;
Mk 14:22-25
;
Lk 22:19-20
;
1 Cor 10:16-17
,
21
;
11:23-26
;
Heb 13:10

   Source of eternal life:
Jn 6:54

   True food and drink:
Jn 6:55

   Truth of the Eucharist requires faith given by the Holy Spirit in order to be accepted:
Jn 6:63-64

   
See also
Body; Flesh

Evangelization

   Apologetics, or being ready to give a reasoned account (literally, "defense" or "explanation") for one's hope in Christ:
1 Pet 3:15

   Jesus' commissioning of his disciples to evangelize the whole world:
Mt 28:19-20
;
Mk 16:15
;
Lk 24:47-48
;
Acts 1:8

   Mission of evangelization directed to Jew and Gentile alike:
Mt 24:14
;
Mk 13:10
;
Acts 13:47
;
14:15
;
17:30-31
;
Rom 2:10
;
10:12-18
;
11:12
,
15
,
25-26
;
1 Cor 1:24
;
12:13

   
See also
Church; Gospel; Jews

Faith

   Assurance of things hoped for:
Heb 11:1

   Body of belief:
Phil 1:27
;
Col 1:23
;
1 Tim 1:2
;
3:9
;
4:1
,
6
;
5:8
;
6:10
,
12
,
21
;
2 Tim 4:7
;
Tit 1:13
;
Jude 3

   Completed by works:
Jas 2:22

   Dead without works of love:
Jas 2:17
,
23-24

   Degrees of faith:
Lk 17:5-6

   Faith is a form of obedience to God's Word:
Jn 3:36
;
Rom 1:5
;
16:26
;
1 Jn 3:23

   Justification by faith in Jesus Christ apart from works of the Law but not by faith alone:
Gal 2:16
;
Jas 2:24

   Love completes faith:
Gal 5:6

   Necessary for salvation:
Mk 16:16
;
Jn 3:16
;
8:24
;
Acts 16:31
;
Heb 11:6

   No absolute assurance of salvation because apostasy and other grave sin remains possible in this life:
Rom 11:20-22
;
Heb 6:4-6
.
2 Pet 2:20-22

   Salvation by grace through faith:
Eph 2:8

   Walk by faith, not by sight:
2 Cor 5:7

   See also Grace; Justification; Salvation; Works

False doctrine

   Danger of false prophets:
Mt 7:15
;
24:11
,
24
;
Mk 13:22

   Warning concerning those who reject or distort apostolic doctrine:
Rom 16:17
;
Eph 4:14
;
1 Tim 1:3
,
10
;
4:1
;
2 Tim 4:3-4
;
Heb 13:9
;
2 Pet 2:1

Family

   Baptism of whole families:
Acts 16:33
;
1 Cor 1:16

   Derived from God's fatherhood:
Eph 3:14-15

   Fathers not to provoke their children to anger but to instruct them in the Lord:
Eph 6:4
;
Col 3:21

   Founded on marriage:
Mt 19:5-7

   Mothers should exercise rulership of their households:
1 Tim 5:14

   Mutual submission of husband and wife to one another in Christ:
Eph 5:21-33

   Obedience of children to parents commanded:
Eph 6:1-3
;
Col 3:20

   Obligation to provide for one's family:
1 Tim 5:8

   
See also
Church; Fatherhood; Marriage; Motherhood

Fasting:
Mt 6:16-18
;
Lk 2:37
;
Acts 13:2-3
;
14:23

Fatherhood

   Fatherhood of apostolic ministry and, by extension, of priestly ministry:
1 Cor 4:14-15
;
Phil 2:22
;
1 Thess 2:11

   Fathers exhorted to raise their children properly and not to provoke them:
Eph 6:4
;
Col 3:21

   God alone is Father in the absolute sense:
Mt 23:9
;
Eph 3:14-15

   Men may also be called "father":
Mt 1:1-16
;
15:4-5
;
21:31
;
Lk 2:33
;
Acts 26:6
;
Rom 4:16
;
1 Cor 4:14-17
;
1 Thess 2:11
; Philem 10;
1 Jn 2:13-14

   Older men to be exhorted as fathers by younger men:
1 Tim 5:1

   
See also
Family; God; Trinity

Flesh

   All of mortal humanity as such:
Lk 3:6
;
Jn 17:2
;
Acts 2:17
;
1 Pet 1:24

   Aspect of man that is subject to death, illness, weakness, and suffering:
2 Cor 4:11
;
12:7
;
Gal 3:20
;
4:13
("bodily ailment: literally, in Greek, "weakness of the flesh");
Col 1:24
;
Phil 1:22
,
24
;
Heb 5:7
;
1 Pet 3:18
;
4:1

   Aspect of man that is under the domination of sin, sinful impulses, and evil outlooks ("the flesh"):
Mt 26:41
;
Jn 1:13
;
6:63
;
Rom 7:18
;
8:3-9
,
12-13
;
13:14
;
1 Cor 5:5
;
Gal 5:16-17
,
19
;
1 Pet 2:11

   Bodily aspect of the human person or the embodied person:
Mt 19:5-6
;
Lk 24:39
;
Jn 3:6
;
Rom 8:3
;
Acts 2:31
;
Eph 5:28-31
;
Phil 3:2
;
Col 1:11
,
13
,
22
;
Jude 8

   Complementary element of human life to "blood", the two of which represent man in his limitations:
Mt 16:17
;
1 Cor 15:50
;
Gal 1:16
;
Eph 6:12
;
Heb 2:14

   Contrasted with spirit or the Spirit:
Jn 3:6
;
Rom 8:4-10
,
13

   Jesus came in the flesh, i.e., possessing human nature:
Jn 1:14
;
Eph 2:15
;
1 Tim 3:16
;
Heb 5:7
;
10:20
;
1 Jn 4:2
;
2 Jn 7

   Jesus' term, used in conjunction with "blood", to refer to the reality of his embodied presence in the Eucharist:
Jn 6:51-56

   Life of man according to the order of the present world:
Jn 8:15
;
1 Cor 1:26
,
29
;
Eph 6:5
("earthly masters", literally, in Greek, "masters according to the flesh");
Phil 3:4
;
Gal 6:12
;
2 Cor 5:16
; Philem 16

   One-flesh union of husband and wife:
Mt 19:5-6
;
Mk 10:8
;
Eph 5:31

   Principle of biological generation, descent, and kinship:
Rom 1:3
;
4:1
;
9:3
,
8
;
11:14
("my fellow Jews", literally, in Greek: "my flesh")