This appendix lists the main passages quoted in Becoming Marcionite, the Evangelion first and then the letters of the Apostolikon in order. All references are True Testament (TT) verse numbers, and each verse is given as the True Testament prints it.
Use it to find a passage you remember reading, to check the textual basis of an argument, or to show a specific verse to someone exploring these claims.
The Evangelion
Evangelion 1:1–2 TT (Chapters 5, 7): “It was the fifteenth year of Tiberius Caesar’s reign, in the days of Pilate. That’s when Jesus descended into Capernaum, a town in Galilee. Every Sabbath, he taught the people there.” Christ’s entry: a descent into Capernaum in the fifteenth year of Tiberius, with no birth narrative before it.
Evangelion 1:3 TT (Chapter 5): “They were amazed at what he taught, because his word had authority.” His word carried its own authority.
Evangelion 1:5 TT (Chapter 5): “What do you want with us, Jesus? Did you come here to destroy us? I know who you are: the holy one of God!” The demon recognizes Christ at once.
Evangelion 9:27 TT (Chapter 12): “If anyone comes to me but does not reject his father, mother, wife, children, brothers, sisters, even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.” We read: no claim of family comes before Christ.
Galatians
Galatians 1:5 TT (Chapter 4): “I am astonished that you are so quickly turning from the one who called you by grace to a different message.” The Galatians are turning away from the one who called them by grace.
Galatians 1:6 TT (Chapters 4, 8): “There is no other according to my Evangelion, except that some are disturbing you and wish to change it into a different message of Christ.” There is no second Evangelion, only people changing the first.
Galatians 1:7 TT (Chapter 4): “Even if we or an angel from heaven should proclaim a message contrary to what we proclaimed to you, let him be condemned.” Even an angel who proclaims a contrary message stands condemned.
Galatians 1:10 TT (Chapter 4): “I make known to you, brothers and sisters, that the Evangelion proclaimed by me is not according to man.” Paul’s Evangelion does not come from human teaching.
Galatians 1:11 TT (Chapters 4, 7): “For I neither received it from man nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Christ Jesus.” It came by a revelation of Christ Jesus.
Galatians 2:2 TT (Chapter 7): “It was because of a revelation that I went up, and I set before them the Evangelion that I proclaim among the nations, but I did so privately to those of reputation, lest perhaps I had run, or should be running, in vain.” Paul set his Evangelion before the Jerusalem leaders in private.
Galatians 2:3 TT (Chapter 4): “But not even Titus, who was with me, though a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.” Titus, a Greek, was not compelled to be circumcised.
Galatians 2:4–5 TT (Chapter 4): “It was because of false brothers who came in secretly to spy on the freedom we have in Christ, in order to enslave us. But we did not yield in submission for an hour, so that the truth of the Evangelion might remain with you.” The false brothers, and Paul’s refusal to yield to them.
Galatians 2:7 TT (Chapter 7): “Recognizing the grace that had been given to me, Peter and James and John, who were regarded as pillars, gave to me the right hand of fellowship, that I should go to the nations and they to the circumcised.” The pillars gave Paul the right hand of fellowship.
Galatians 2:9 TT (Chapters 4, 7): “But when Peter came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned.” Paul opposes Peter to his face at Antioch.
Galatians 2:10 TT (Chapter 4): “For before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the nations; but when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing those of the circumcision.” Peter withdraws from the table out of fear of those of the circumcision.
Galatians 2:16 TT (Chapter 9): “For through Law I died to Law, so that I might live to God.” Paul has died to the Law.
Galatians 2:17 TT (Chapter 9): “I have been staked with Christ; yet it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who redeemed me and gave himself for me.” How he died to it: staked with Christ.
Galatians 3:9 TT (Chapter 9): “Christ purchased us from the curse of Law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,” What we were purchased out of is the curse of the Law.
Galatians 4:3 TT (Chapters 3, 11): “I still say, speaking in human terms, that while we were children, we were enslaved under the elements of the world.” The former state: enslaved under the elements of the world.
Galatians 4:8 TT (Chapter 10): “Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to those who are gods by nature.” Before they knew the Father they were enslaved to other gods.
Galatians 4:9 TT (Chapter 10): “But now, having come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how do you turn again to the weak and poor elements, to which you want to be enslaved once more?” Turning back means returning to weak and poor elements.
Galatians 4:10 TT (Chapters 4, 10): “You observe days and months and seasons and years.” The calendar as a sign of the return.
Galatians 5:1 TT (Chapter 11): “Stand firm, then, in the freedom with which Christ freed us, and do not again submit to the yoke of slavery.” Freedom from the Law’s yoke, and the charge to stand in it.
Galatians 5:2–3 TT (Chapter 4): “I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will benefit you nothing. A circumcised person is obligated to fulfill the whole Law.” Circumcision obligates a person to the whole Law.
Galatians 5:16 TT (Chapter 11): “Walk by Spirit, and you will not bring to completion the desire of the flesh.” Walk by Spirit.
Galatians 5:22–23 TT (Chapter 11): “But the fruit of Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no Law.” What grows where the Spirit is at work. No Law is against it.
1 Corinthians
1 Corinthians 2:8 TT (Chapter 9): “None of the rulers of this aeon understood it; for if they had, they would never have staked the Lord of glory.” The rulers of this aeon staked Christ without understanding.
1 Corinthians 3:12–15 TT (Chapter 9): “If anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw, the work of each will become manifest, for the day will disclose it, because it is revealed by fire, and the fire will test the quality of each one’s work. If the work that someone built remains, he will receive a reward. If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be rescued, yet so as through fire.” The work is tested by fire. The builder is rescued.
1 Corinthians 6:20 TT (Chapter 9): “For you were purchased with a price; therefore glorify and exalt God in your body.” Purchased with a price.
1 Corinthians 8:1–2 TT (Chapter 2): “We know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God except one. For even if there are so-called gods in the heavens and on the earth, indeed many gods and many lords,” No God except one, and yet many so-called gods and lords.
1 Corinthians 8:3 TT (Chapter 2): “Yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we are, and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we are.” For us there is one God, the Father. We read him as other than the god of this aeon.
1 Corinthians 11:23 TT (Chapter 10): “But when we are judged, we are disciplined by the Lord so that we may not be condemned with the world.” The Lord’s correction aims at rescue, not condemnation.
1 Corinthians 15:19 TT (Chapter 3): “For just as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.” In Adam all die. Paul speaks of death here, not of inherited guilt.
2 Corinthians
2 Corinthians 3:2 TT (Chapter 2): “He made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit, for the letter kills but the Spirit makes alive.” The letter kills. The Spirit makes alive.
2 Corinthians 3:3–6 TT (Chapter 2): “But if the ministry of death, in letters engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the sons of Israel could not look intently at the face of Moses because of the glory of his face that was fading, how will not the ministry of the Spirit be still more in glory? For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, much more does the ministry of righteousness overflow in glory. For what was once glorified has no glory in this respect, in comparison to the surpassing glory.” Two ministries: one of death and condemnation, one of the Spirit and righteousness. The first has no glory beside the second.
2 Corinthians 3:9 TT (Chapter 2): “But the thoughts of the world were dulled, for until this very day the same veil remains at the reading of the old covenant and it is not unveiled, for it is taken away in Christ.” The veil remains at the reading of the old covenant and is taken away in Christ.
2 Corinthians 3:10 TT (Chapter 2): “Until today, whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their heart.” The veil lies on the heart whenever Moses is read.
2 Corinthians 3:11 TT (Chapter 2): “Whenever a person turns to God, the veil is taken away.” Turning to God takes the veil away.
2 Corinthians 4:1 TT (Chapter 2): “In their case, the god of this aeon has blinded the minds of the untrusting, so that the light of the Evangelion of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, might not shine to them.” The god of this aeon blinds. We hold that he is the Creator.
2 Corinthians 4:3 TT (Chapter 10): “For the God who said, Light shall shine out of darkness, has shone in our hearts to give the light of the recognition of his glory in the face of Christ.” The Good Father’s light shines in the heart, in the face of Christ.
2 Corinthians 5:9 TT (Chapter 9): “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive back what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.” What each one has done is weighed at the judgment seat of Christ.
Romans
Romans 1:6 TT (Chapters 1, 2): “For wrath is revealed from heaven against the ungodliness and injustice of humans who suppress the truth in injustice.” Wrath revealed against the ungodliness and injustice of humans. We read this wrath as the Creator’s.
Romans 3:2 TT (Chapter 3): “Now we know that whatever the Law says, it speaks to those under the Law, that every mouth may be stopped and the whole world be brought under accusation before God.” The Law’s function is accusation of the whole world.
Romans 3:3 TT (Chapter 3): “Because by works of Law no flesh will be justified in His sight; for through the Law comes the recognition of sin.” The Law gives the recognition of sin.
Romans 5:1 TT (Chapter 6): “Therefore, being justified by faith in Christ, not on the basis of the Law, let us have peace toward God through our Lord Jesus.” Peace toward God, apart from the Law.
Romans 5:6 TT (Chapter 6): “For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.” Christ died for the helpless and the ungodly.
Romans 5:7 TT (Chapter 6): “But the Law came in so that wrongdoing might abound, and where wrongdoing abounded, grace abounded all the more;” Grace outruns wrongdoing.
Romans 5:8 TT (Chapter 6): “so, as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign in righteousness unto life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Sin reigned in death. Grace reigns unto life through Christ.
Romans 6:12 TT (Chapters 1, 9): “For sin shall no longer be Lord over us, for we are not under Law but under grace.” Two jurisdictions: under Law, and under grace.
Romans 7:3 TT (Chapter 9): “But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of Spirit and not in oldness of letter.” Released from the Law by dying to it.
Romans 7:4 TT (Chapter 3): “What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? May it never be! But I would not have known sin except through the Law; for I would not have known desire if the Law had not said, “You shall not covet.” The Law is not sin. It is how sin is known.
Romans 7:5 TT (Chapter 3): “But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every desire; for apart from the Law, sin is dead.” Sin takes its opening through the commandment.
Romans 7:6 TT (Chapter 3): “For sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.” Sin, through the commandment, kills.
Romans 7:7 TT (Chapter 3): “So then, the Law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good.” Paul calls the Law holy and the commandment holy and just and good.
Romans 7:9 TT (Chapter 3): “For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am flesh, sold under sin.” Sold under sin: the language of captivity.
Romans 7:10 TT (Chapter 3): “For what I am doing I do not understand; for I do not practice what I will, but what I hate, that I do.” The war between what a person wills and what a person does.
Romans 7:13 TT (Chapter 3): “For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, good does not dwell; for to will is present with me, but to do the good is not.” In the flesh, good does not dwell.
Romans 7:18 TT (Chapter 3): “But I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner to the law of sin in my members.” A prisoner to the law of sin in the members.
Romans 8:1 TT (Chapter 11): “Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.” No condemnation for those in Christ Jesus.
Romans 8:15 TT (Chapter 11): “For you have not received a spirit of slavery again to fear, but we have been received into adoption, crying ‘Abba, Father.’” Not a spirit of slavery, but adoption, and the cry of Abba.
Romans 8:17 TT (Chapter 1): “For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us.” The sufferings of this present time, set against the glory to come.
Romans 8:20 TT (Chapter 1): “The Spirit also helps our weakness, for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.” The Spirit intercedes when we do not know how to pray.
Romans 8:22 TT (Chapter 9): “If God is for us, who is against us?” If the Good Father is for us, opposition loses its force.
Romans 8:23 TT (Chapter 9): “Who will bring charge against God’s chosen? God is the one who justifies.” The Good Father sets his chosen right. No charge stands.
Romans 8:24 TT (Chapter 9): “Who condemns? Christ Jesus is the one who died, and more than that, was raised, who is at the right hand of God, interceding for us.” Christ, raised, intercedes at the Father’s right hand.
Romans 8:25 TT (Chapter 9): “Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword?” Who can separate us from the love of Christ? Paul’s answer is that nothing can.
Romans 8:29 TT (Chapter 12): “nor height nor depth nor any created thing will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Nothing can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus.
1 Thessalonians
1 Thessalonians 5:9 TT (Chapter 6): “For God has not appointed us for wrath, but for the obtaining of rescue through our Lord Jesus Christ.” The Good Father’s purpose for us is rescue, not wrath.
Laodiceans
Laodiceans 2:3 TT (Chapter 3): “Among them all of us too once lived, in misdeeds and in the desires of the flesh, doing the will of flesh and of mind, and were by nature children of wrath like the rest.” By nature children of wrath. We read: wrath, not inherited guilt.
Laodiceans 5:2 TT (Chapter 10): “Walk in love, just as Christ loved you and gave himself for you, an offering and a sacrifice to God, a fragrant aroma.” Christ’s self-giving, in love: an offering and a sacrifice to God.
Colossians
Colossians 1:12 TT (Chapter 10): “giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the holy ones in the light.” The Father qualifies us for the inheritance.
Colossians 1:13 TT (Chapters 5, 12): “He rescued us from the realm of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of his beloved Son,” The Father rescues and transfers: out of the realm of darkness, into the kingdom of his Son.
Colossians 1:14 TT (Chapter 12): “in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.” In Christ: redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
Colossians 1:15 TT (Chapter 5): “He is the image of the invisible God.” The Father is unseen. Christ is his image.
Colossians 2:6 TT (Chapter 9): “When you were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, he made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,” Dead in trespasses, made alive with Christ, forgiven.
Colossians 2:7 TT (Chapter 9): “having canceled the certificate of debt with its decrees against us, which was hostile to us; he took it out of the way, nailing it to the stake.” Cancelled and nailed to the stake. We read: voided, not paid.