Appendix A
A Scripture Finder for the Whole Book
Every Bible passage this book treats is listed below, in the order the passages appear in the Bible. Each row gives three things: the passage, what the book uses it to show, and the chapter where you will find the full discussion. Click the link and you land on the argument itself.
The table covers all four pillars: the character of God (Chapters 2–7), the cross for all (Chapters 8–12), the will to save all (Chapters 13–17), and the victory of God (Chapters 18–23). It also covers the ten judgment texts treated in Appendix D. When a passage appears in more than one chapter, the owner is listed first. That is the chapter with the full treatment. Other chapters that touch the passage are noted after.
For key Greek and Hebrew words, see the word-study table at the bottom of this page. It points to Appendix C.
| Passage | What the Book Uses It to Show | Where It Is Treated |
|---|---|---|
| Old Testament | ||
| Genesis | ||
| Genesis 3:9 | The first seeking: God goes after the hiding sinner ("Where are you?"). The whole-canon witness that God is a seeker. | Chapter 4 |
| Genesis 12:3 | The Abrahamic promise: "In you all the families of the earth shall be blessed." Election as instrument for the nations. | Chapter 17 |
| Exodus | ||
| Exodus 34:6–7 | Israel's creed: "merciful and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in steadfast love." The Old Testament's foundational confession of God's character. | Chapter 5 |
| Deuteronomy | ||
| Deuteronomy 8:5 | The Father's discipline: God corrects as a father corrects a son. Part of the biblical pattern of restorative justice. | Chapter 7 |
| Deuteronomy 29:29 | "The secret things belong to the LORD." The base text for the decretive/preceptive (secret/revealed) will distinction. | Chapter 15 |
| Job | ||
| Job 42:2 | "No purpose of yours can be thwarted." The opening text of the fourth pillar's biblical bedrock. | Chapter 18; also Ch. 20 |
| Psalms | ||
| Psalm 30:5 | "His anger is but for a moment; his favor is for a lifetime." Wrath is real but penultimate in the Bible's own proportions. | Chapter 6 |
| Psalm 85:10 | "Steadfast love and faithfulness meet; righteousness and peace kiss each other." The unity of God's attributes, not a negotiation. | Chapter 6 |
| Psalm 90:4 | The timescale reset: "A thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday." God's patience operates on a scale we cannot measure. | Chapter 14; also Ch. 22 |
| Psalm 103:8–14 | "He will not keep his anger forever." God remembers we are dust, and His compassion outruns His wrath. | Chapter 6 |
| Psalm 110:1 | The victory psalm: "until I make your enemies your footstool." The question of what subjection means, read with 1 Corinthians 15. | Chapter 19 |
| Psalm 115:3 | "Our God is in the heavens; he does all that he pleases." The sovereignty hinge: whatever God purposes, happens. | Chapter 18 |
| Psalm 135:6 | "Whatever the LORD pleases, he does." The companion sovereignty text to Psalm 115:3. | Chapter 18 |
| Psalm 145:8–9 | "The LORD is good to all, and his mercy is over all that he has made." The widest scope statement in the Psalter. | Chapter 5 |
| Proverbs | ||
| Proverbs 3:11–12 | "The LORD reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights." Discipline as a sign of sonship. | Chapter 7 |
| Isaiah | ||
| Isaiah 1:24–27 | "I will turn my hand against you and smelt away your dross… afterward you shall be called the city of righteousness." Judgment that purifies. | Chapter 7 |
| Isaiah 14:24, 27 | "As I have purposed, so shall it stand… who will annul it?" God's purpose-language as His signature. | Chapter 18 |
| Isaiah 19:22 | "The LORD will strike Egypt, striking and healing." The strike-to-heal pattern across the prophets. | Chapter 7 |
| Isaiah 25:6–9 | The feast "for all peoples"; the shroud over "all peoples" destroyed; death swallowed up; tears wiped "from all faces." | Chapter 23 |
| Isaiah 30:18 | "The LORD waits to be gracious to you." God's eagerness to show mercy. | Chapter 5 |
| Isaiah 45:22–25 | "Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth." The oath behind Philippians 2: every knee bows inside a call to be saved. | Chapter 19 |
| Isaiah 46:9–10 | "My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose." The unthwartable divine plan. | Chapter 18; also Ch. 20 |
| Isaiah 53:6 | "The LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all." The extent-of-the-atonement question opens here. | Chapter 8; also Ch. 12 |
| Isaiah 54:7–8 | "For a brief moment I deserted you, but with great compassion I will gather you… with everlasting love I will have compassion." | Chapter 6 |
| Isaiah 55:6–11 | "My word shall not return to me empty." The word guaranteed to succeed is, in context, a word of abundant pardon for the wicked. | Chapter 18 |
| Jeremiah | ||
| Jeremiah 9:7 | "I will refine them and test them." The refiner metaphor applied to judgment. | Chapter 7 |
| Lamentations | ||
| Lamentations 3:31–33 | "The Lord will not cast off forever… he does not afflict from his heart." Divine severity set inside a promise of restoration. | Chapter 5; also Ch. 15 |
| Ezekiel | ||
| Ezekiel 18:23, 30–32 | "Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked?" God's rhetorical question and plea, spoken inside a judgment oracle. | Chapter 5 |
| Ezekiel 33:11 | "As I live, declares the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked." God's saving heart on oath. | Chapter 5; also Ch. 13, Ch. 15, Ch. 20 |
| Ezekiel 34:11–16 | "I myself will search for my sheep." The seeking-God motif anchored in the Old Testament. | Chapter 4 |
| Hosea | ||
| Hosea 6:1 | "He has torn us, that he may heal us." The strike-to-heal pattern at its starkest. | Chapter 7 |
| Hosea 11:8–9 | "How can I give you up, Ephraim?… My compassion grows warm and tender." The grief and resolve of God over a rebellious people. | Chapter 5 |
| Joel | ||
| Joel 2:13 | "He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love." The creed restated in a call to repentance. | Chapter 14 |
| Jonah | ||
| Jonah 4:2, 10–11 | The prophet angry that God is exactly what Exodus 34:6 said: merciful even to Nineveh. | Chapter 5 |
| Micah | ||
| Micah 7:18–19 | "He delights in steadfast love… You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea." | Chapter 5 |
| Habakkuk | ||
| Habakkuk 1:13 | "You who are of purer eyes than to see evil." The holiness of God, affirmed and integrated with love. | Chapter 6 |
| Zephaniah | ||
| Zephaniah 3:8–9 | Fire of jealousy, then: "I will change the speech of the peoples to a pure speech, that all of them may call upon the name of the LORD." Judgment followed by restoration for all peoples. | Chapter 7 |
| Malachi | ||
| Malachi 3:2–3 | "Who can endure the day of his coming?… He will sit as a refiner." The refiner's fire: purification, not destruction. | Chapter 7 |
| New Testament | ||
| Matthew | ||
| Matthew 7:13–14 | The narrow gate: real exclusion, real urgency. The question of whether "shut" means shut forever. | Appendix D (entry 4) |
| Matthew 10:28 | The "destroy" language (Greek apollymi). The conditionalist reading at full strength and the restorationist reply. | Appendix D (entry 8) |
| Matthew 25:31–46 | "Eternal punishment" (Greek kolasis aiōnios). The sheep and goats, the age-long corrective judgment, and the word behind "eternal." | Appendix D (entry 1); also Ch. 20 |
| Matthew 26:24 | "It would have been better for that man not to have been born." Hyperbole, dereliction, and what a woe can settle about eternity. | Appendix D (entry 10) |
| Mark | ||
| Mark 9:43–48 | Gehenna and the unquenchable fire (with Isaiah 66:24 behind it). The imagery's source, function, and limits. | Appendix D (entry 2) |
| Luke | ||
| Luke 13:22–30 | The shut door: real exclusion, with the question of permanence pressed. | Appendix D (entry 4) |
| Luke 15:1–32 | The lost sheep, the lost coin, the lost son: Jesus' self-portraits of God as seeker who goes out "until he finds." | Chapter 4 |
| Luke 16:19–31 | The rich man and Lazarus: genre, the chasm "in Hades" (not the final state), and what the parable does and does not teach. | Appendix D (entry 3) |
| Luke 19:10 | "The Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost." The New Testament anchor of the seeking-God motif. | Chapter 4 |
| Luke 24:27 | The Emmaus rule: the whole of Scripture read toward and through Christ. | Chapter 3 |
| John | ||
| John 1:18 | "No one has ever seen God; the only God… has made him known" (Greek exēgēsato, "narrated/explained"). | Chapter 3 |
| John 1:29 | "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world." The first of seven universal-scope texts in John. | Chapter 9 |
| John 3:16–17 | "God so loved the world… not to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved." | Chapter 9 |
| John 4:24 | "God is spirit." The grammatical parallel to "God is love" (1 John 4:8): a predicate-nature statement. | Chapter 2 |
| John 4:42 | "The Savior of the world." The title the church put on Samaritan lips. | Chapter 9 |
| John 6:33, 51 | "Gives life to the world… my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world." The bread and the life: universal in scope. | Chapter 9 |
| John 6:44–45 | Drawing and teaching: the Father draws and every taught person comes. The freedom question in John's own frame. | Chapter 22; also Ch. 9 |
| John 10:11–15 | The Good Shepherd lays down his life "for the sheep." A particular-love text, faced honestly. | Chapter 8 |
| John 12:32, 47 | "I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself… I came not to judge the world but to save the world." | Chapter 9 |
| John 14:6 | "I am the way, and the truth, and the life." The Christ-exclusivity the book's boundary keeps. | Chapter 1 |
| John 14:8–9 | "Whoever has seen me has seen the Father." The christological control on the doctrine of God. | Chapter 3 |
| Acts | ||
| Acts 2:23 | The decreed crucifixion: God decrees through what He forbids. The inevitability of some will-distinction. | Chapter 15 |
| Acts 17:26–31 | God's reach to all nations: "He made from one man every nation… that they should seek God." | Chapter 16 |
| Romans | ||
| Romans 1:18–20 | General revelation: enough to condemn, but is it all justice requires? The reach question pressed. | Chapter 16 |
| Romans 2:4 | "God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance." Patience as a saving instrument. | Chapter 14 |
| Romans 5:1, 8, 10 | Peace through justification; God demonstrates His love while we were sinners; reconciled while enemies. | Chapter 6; also Ch. 10 |
| Romans 5:12–21 | The two Adams: "As one trespass led to condemnation for all, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all." The grammar and scope of "all" (Greek pas) introduced. | Chapter 11 |
| Romans 8:3 | "God… condemned sin in the flesh." Sin condemned and the sinner loved in one act at the cross. | Chapter 6 |
| Romans 9:1–24 | Election, vessels, the potter: the argument's middle, not its conclusion. Read inside the Romans 9–11 arc. Also "vessels of wrath" in the judgment texts. | Chapter 17; also App. D (entry 9) |
| Romans 10:14–17 | "How are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard?" Hearing is necessary; this lifetime is not the only venue. | Chapter 16 |
| Romans 11:11–36 | The fullness of the Gentiles, all Israel saved, branches re-grafted, and the climax: "God has consigned all to disobedience, that he may have mercy on all" (v. 32). The doxology (vv. 33–36). | Chapter 17 |
| Romans 14:11 | "Every tongue shall confess to God." Paul quotes Isaiah 45 at the judgment seat, using the glad-acknowledgment verb (Greek exomologeō). | Chapter 19 |
| 1 Corinthians | ||
| 1 Corinthians 13:4–8 | "Love never fails." The book's title text and its governing declaration. | Chapter 1; also Ch. 24 |
| 1 Corinthians 15:20–28 | "As in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive… that God may be all in all." Christ reigning until every enemy is subdued, death destroyed, and the Son Himself subjected. The fullest picture of the end. | Chapter 19; also Ch. 11, Ch. 24 |
| 2 Corinthians | ||
| 2 Corinthians 4:6 | "The light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ." The christological lens. | Chapter 3 |
| 2 Corinthians 5:14–21 | "One has died for all… God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself." The reconciliation accomplished at the cross. | Chapter 10 |
| Ephesians | ||
| Ephesians 1:9–11 | "The mystery of his will… to unite all things in him." God "works all things according to the counsel of his will." | Chapter 18; also Ch. 20, Ch. 21 |
| Ephesians 2:14–16 | Christ "our peace… that he might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross." The peace-making parallel to Colossians 1. | Chapter 10 |
| Ephesians 5:25 | "Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her." A particular-love text, faced honestly. | Chapter 8 |
| Philippians | ||
| Philippians 1:6 | "He who began a good work in you will bring it to completion." The completion logic writ large. | Chapter 18 |
| Philippians 2:9–11 | "At the name of Jesus every knee should bow… and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father." The universal liturgy at the end. | Chapter 19 |
| Philippians 2:12–13 | "God… is at work in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure." Grace at work in the willing. | Chapter 22 |
| Colossians | ||
| Colossians 1:15 | "The image of the invisible God" (Greek eikōn). The christological imprint text. | Chapter 3 |
| Colossians 1:15–20 | "Through him to reconcile to himself all things… making peace by the blood of his cross." The all-things created are the all-things reconciled. | Chapter 10 |
| 2 Thessalonians | ||
| 2 Thessalonians 1:5–10 | "Eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord." The translation question and the divine-presence reading. | Appendix D (entry 6); also Ch. 20 |
| 1 Timothy | ||
| 1 Timothy 2:1–7 | "God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved." The third pillar's cornerstone, with the "all kinds" reading answered. | Chapter 13 (v. 4); Ch. 12 (vv. 5–6); also Ch. 15, Ch. 20, Ch. 21 |
| 1 Timothy 4:10 | "The Savior of all people, especially of those who believe" (Greek malista, "especially"). A two-level Savior, not a restricted one. | Chapter 12 |
| Titus | ||
| Titus 2:11 | "The grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people." | Chapter 12 |
| Hebrews | ||
| Hebrews 1:1–3 | "The radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature" (Greek charaktēr). God's final and definitive speech is a Son. | Chapter 3 |
| Hebrews 2:9, 14–17 | "So that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone" (Greek hyper pantos). Incarnation-wide solidarity with the whole human family. | Chapter 12 |
| Hebrews 9:27–28 | "It is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment." What the verse says and what it is made to say. | Appendix D (entry 5) |
| Hebrews 12:5–11 | "The Lord disciplines the one he loves." Discipline as sonship's proof, "for our good, that we may share his holiness." | Chapter 7 |
| James | ||
| James 2:19 | "Even the demons believe—and shudder." Proof that seeing clearly is not the same as being coerced. | Chapter 22 |
| 1 Peter | ||
| 1 Peter 3:20 | "God's patience waited in the days of Noah." Patience as a saving instrument, across Scripture. | Chapter 14 |
| 2 Peter | ||
| 2 Peter 2:1 | "The Master who bought them" (Greek agorazō): said of false teachers heading for destruction. The atonement's purchase covers even those who deny Him. | Chapter 12 |
| 2 Peter 3:1–15 | "The Lord is not slow… but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance." Peter tells the church to "count the patience of our Lord as salvation" (v. 15). | Chapter 14; also Ch. 13, Ch. 20 |
| 1 John | ||
| 1 John 1:5 | "God is light." The grammatical parallel to "God is love": a predicate-nature statement. | Chapter 2 |
| 1 John 2:1–2 | "He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world" (Greek holou tou kosmou). The single text the "world = elect" reading cannot survive. | Chapter 9 |
| 1 John 4:7–16 | "God is love." Not a compliment but a definition: a claim about what God is, not merely how He sometimes acts toward some people. | Chapter 2; also Ch. 21 |
| 1 John 4:14 | "The Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world." The widening of the family circle. | Chapter 9 |
| 1 John 5:19 | "The whole world lies in the power of the evil one." The hostile kosmos that God loves nonetheless. | Chapter 9 |
| Revelation | ||
| Revelation 5:13 | "Every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea" heard praising the Lamb. The four-fold everywhere in worship. | Chapter 23 |
| Revelation 14:9–11; 20:10–15; 21:8 | The lake of fire and the second death. Apocalyptic genre, the smoke-forever imagery's OT sources, and the second death read with 1 Corinthians 15:26. | Appendix D (entry 7) |
| Revelation 21:1–5 | "Behold, I am making all things new." God wipes away every tear, the former things pass away, and death is no more. | Chapter 23; also Ch. 24 |
| Revelation 21:25–22:2 | The gates that are "never shut," the kings of the earth bringing their glory in, and the tree of life with its leaves "for the healing of the nations." | Chapter 23 |
The book's argument turns on specific Greek and Hebrew words. Each word below is treated briefly in the chapter named, and more fully in Appendix C: Words That Carry the Weight.
| Term | Meaning and Significance | Primary Discussion |
|---|---|---|
| pas | "All, every." The grammar and scope of Paul's universal terms, introduced with the two-Adams parallel. | Chapter 11; App. C |
| kosmos | "World." The created order God made and loves, often the hostile human world in rebellion. | Chapter 9; App. C |
| thelō / boulomai | "Desire, will." The verbs behind "God desires all people to be saved" and "not wishing that any should perish." | Chapters 13–14; App. C |
| makrothymia | "Patience, long-suffering." Divine patience as a saving instrument, not divine slowness. | Chapter 14; App. C |
| katallassō / apokatallasō | "Reconcile." The saving reconciliation vocabulary of 2 Corinthians 5 and Colossians 1. | Chapter 10; App. C |
| hilasmos | "Propitiation / atoning sacrifice." The cross as the objective dealing with sin. | Chapter 9; App. C |
| antilytron / lytron | "Ransom." The price paid for all (1 Timothy 2:6). | Chapter 12; App. C |
| agorazō | "Buy, purchase." The market-price verb applied even to false teachers (2 Peter 2:1). | Chapter 12; App. C |
| sōzō / sōtēr / sōtēria | "Save / Savior / salvation." The Pastorals' salvation language, resisting the "preserver" escape. | Chapter 12; App. C |
| malista | "Especially." "Savior of all people, especially of those who believe" (1 Timothy 4:10): a two-level reading, not a restriction. | Chapter 12; App. C |
| hypotassō | "Subject, place under." The Son's own subjection (1 Cor 15:28) teaches us what kind of subjection fills the end. | Chapter 19; App. C |
| katargeō | "Abolish, bring to nothing." What is destroyed is death, not the people (1 Cor 15:26). | Chapter 19; App. C |
| exomologeō | "Confess, praise, give thanks." In biblical usage, overwhelmingly glad acknowledgment. The willing-confession verb of Philippians 2:11. | Chapter 19; App. C |
| hina | "In order that" (purpose). The purpose clause of Romans 11:32: God consigned all to disobedience that He may have mercy on all. | Chapter 17; App. C |
| apokatastasis | "Restoration." The restoration of all things, from Acts 3:21. The historic name for the hope this book defends. | Chapter 1; App. F; App. C |
| aiōn / aiōnios / olam |
"Age / age-long / of the age." The word behind "eternal" in "eternal punishment." Does it mean endless, or pertaining to an age? | Appendix D (entry 1); App. C |