Sentences with phrase «chief of sinners»

St. Paul, one of the greatest figures in Christianity, gave the most powerful example of this by referring to himself as the «chief of sinners.»

He didn't write, «I was the chief of sinners,» but «I am the chief of sinners.»

At the end of his life, the apostle Paul claimed that he was the chief of sinners (1 Timothy 1:15).

he was not the chief of sinners.

In one place, the Psalmist writes that he drowns his bed with a single tear (Psalm 6:6; the Hebrew word for «tears» is singular), and even Paul writes that he is the chief of sinners (1 Timothy 1:15).

He says he was the least of the saints and the chief of sinners, but we see how God used him anyway.

In 1 Timothy 1:15 he states a similar idea when he calls himself the chief of all sinners.

Like the apostle Paul once said, I myself am also a «chief of sinners» so for me, the well of love runs deep.

Paul called himself the «chief of sinners».

He speaks of how he is the chief of sinners.

But late in Paul's life, when his love for Jesus was greater than it ever had been before, he looked back over his life and called himself the chief of sinners (1 Tim 1:15).

«I am the least of the apostles», (the beginning of his ministries),» I am the least of the saints», (the mid - point of his ministry), and finally» I am the chiefest of sinners, (before his death).

Paul, the chief of sinners, was chosen by God to share God's grace to the Gentiles.

Which is why Paul, who practically started the early church, called himself the chief of sinners.

Here is John Bunyan's testimony in Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners:

Even Paul called himself the chief of sinners (1 Tim.