1 Corinthians 2:1

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And when I came to you, my brothers, I did not come with wise words of knowledge, putting before you the secret of God.

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  • 1 Cor 1:17 : 17 For Christ sent me, not to give baptism, but to be a preacher of the good news: not with wise words, for fear that the cross of Christ might be made of no value.
  • 1 Cor 2:4 : 4 And in my preaching there were no honeyed words of wisdom, but I was dependent on the power of the Spirit to make it clear to you:
  • 1 Cor 2:13 : 13 And these are the things which we say, not in the language of man's wisdom, but in words given to us by the Spirit, judging the things of the spirit by the help of the Spirit.
  • Exod 4:10 : 10 And Moses said to the Lord, O Lord, I am not a man of words; I have never been so, and am not now, even after what you have said to your servant: for talking is hard for me, and I am slow of tongue.
  • Isa 8:20 : 20 Then say to them, Put your faith in the teaching and the witness. ... If they do not say such things. ... For him there is no dawn. ...
  • Jer 1:6-7 : 6 Then said I, O Lord God! see, I have no power of words, for I am a child. 7 But the Lord said to me, Do not say, I am a child: for wherever I send you, you are to go, and whatever I give you orders to say, you are to say.
  • Acts 18:1-4 : 1 After these things, he went away from Athens, and came to Corinth. 2 And there he came across a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by birth, who not long before had come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had given orders that all Jews were to go away from Rome: and he came to them; 3 And because he was of the same trade, he was living with them, and they did their work together; for by trade they were tent-makers. 4 And every Sabbath he had discussions in the Synagogue, turning Jews and Greeks to the faith.
  • Acts 20:21 : 21 Preaching to Jews and to Greeks the need for a turning of the heart to God, and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
  • Acts 22:18 : 18 And I saw him saying to me, Go out of Jerusalem straight away because they will not give hearing to your witness about me.
  • Rom 16:18 : 18 For such people are not servants of the Lord Christ, but of their stomachs; and by their smooth and well-said words the hearts of those who have no knowledge of evil are tricked.
  • 1 Cor 1:6 : 6 Even as the witness of the Christ has been made certain among you:
  • 2 Cor 10:10 : 10 For his letters, they say, have weight and are strong; but in body he is feeble, and his way of talking has little force.
  • 2 Cor 11:6 : 6 But though I am rough in my way of talking, I am not so in knowledge, as we have made clear to all by our acts among you.
  • 2 Thess 1:10 : 10 At his coming, when he will have glory in his saints, and will be a cause of wonder in all those who had faith (because our witness among you had effect) in that day.
  • 1 Tim 1:11 : 11 Which may be seen in the good news of the glory of the great God, which was given into my care.
  • 2 Tim 1:8 : 8 Have no feeling of shame, then, for the witness of our Lord or for me, his prisoner: but undergo all things for the good news in the measure of the power of God;
  • 1 John 4:14 : 14 And we have seen and give witness that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
  • 1 John 5:11-13 : 11 And his witness is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 He who has the Son has the life; he who has not the Son of God has not the life. 13 I have put these things in writing for you who have faith in the name of the Son of God, so that you may be certain that you have eternal life.
  • Rev 1:2 : 2 Who gave witness of the word of God, and of the witness of Jesus Christ, even of all the things which he saw.
  • Rev 1:9 : 9 I, John, your brother, who have a part with you in the trouble and the kingdom and the quiet strength of Jesus, was in the island which is named Patmos, for the word of God and the witness of Jesus.
  • Rev 19:10 : 10 And I went on my face before his feet to give him worship. And he said to me, See you do it not: I am a brother-servant with you and with your brothers who keep the witness of Jesus: give worship to God: for the witness of Jesus is the spirit of the prophet's word.

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  • 1 Cor 2:2-6
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    2 For I had made the decision to have knowledge of nothing among you but only of Jesus Christ on the cross.

    3 And I was with you without strength, in fear and in doubt.

    4 And in my preaching there were no honeyed words of wisdom, but I was dependent on the power of the Spirit to make it clear to you:

    5 So that your faith might be based not on man's wisdom but on the power of God.

    6 But still we have wisdom for those who are complete in knowledge, though not the wisdom of this world, and not of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing:

  • 1 Cor 1:17-19
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    17 For Christ sent me, not to give baptism, but to be a preacher of the good news: not with wise words, for fear that the cross of Christ might be made of no value.

    18 For the word of the cross seems foolish to those who are on the way to destruction; but to us who are on the way to salvation it is the power of God.

    19 As it says in the holy Writings, I will put an end to the wisdom of the wise, and will put on one side the designs of those who have knowledge.

  • 1 Thess 1:5
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    5 Because our good news came to you, not in word only, but in power, and in the Holy Spirit, so that you were completely certain of it; even as you saw what our behaviour to you was like from our love to you.

  • 2 Cor 1:23
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    23 But God is my witness that it was in pity for you that I did not come to Corinth at that time.

  • 1 Thess 2:1-2
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    1 For you yourselves, brothers, are conscious that our coming among you was not without effect:

    2 But after we had first undergone much pain and been cruelly attacked as you saw, at Philippi, by the help of God we gave you the good news without fear, though everything was against us.

  • Gal 1:11-12
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    11 Because I say to you, my brothers, that the good news of which I was the preacher is not man's.

    12 For I did not get it from man, and I was not given teaching in it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ.

  • Gal 1:16
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    16 To give the revelation of his Son in me, so that I might give the news of him to the Gentiles; then I did not take the opinion of flesh and blood,

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    1 Now I am going to make clear to you, my brothers, what the good news was which I gave to you, and which you took, and on which your faith is based,

  • 1 Cor 1:21
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    21 For because, by the purpose of God, the world, with all its wisdom, had not the knowledge of God, it was God's pleasure, by so foolish a thing as preaching, to give salvation to those who had faith in him.

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    16 For when we gave you news of the power and the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, our teaching was not based on stories put together by art, but we were eye-witnesses of his glory.

  • Rom 1:13
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    13 You may be certain, my brothers, that it has frequently been in my mind to come to you (but till now I was kept from it), so that I might have some fruit from you in the same way as I have had it from the other nations.

  • 2 Cor 1:15-16
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    15 And being certain of this, it was my purpose to come to you before, so that you might have a second grace;

    16 And by way of Corinth to go into Macedonia, and from there to come back again to you, so that you might send me on my way to Judaea.

  • 2 Cor 2:1
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    1 But it was my decision for myself, not to come again to you with sorrow.

  • 1 Cor 3:1
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    1 And the teaching I gave you, my brothers, was such as I was able to give, not to those who have the Spirit, but to those who are still in the flesh, even to children in Christ.

  • 2 Cor 12:1
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    1 As it is necessary for me to take glory to myself, though it is not a good thing, I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

  • 1 Cor 4:19
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    19 But I will come to you in a short time, if it is pleasing to the Lord, and I will take note, not of the word of those who are full of pride, but of the power.

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    12 That is, that some of you say, I am of Paul; some say, I am of Apollos; some say, I am of Cephas; and some say, I am Christ's.

  • Gal 2:2
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    2 And I went up by revelation; and I put before them the good news which I was preaching among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were of good name, so that the work which I was or had been doing might not be without effect.

  • 1 Cor 1:23-24
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    23 But we give the good news of Christ on the cross, a hard thing to the Jews, and a foolish thing to the Gentiles;

    24 But to those of God's selection, Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power and the wisdom of God.

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    9 For you have the memory, my brothers, of our trouble and care; how, working night and day, so that we might not be a trouble to any of you, we gave you the good news of God.

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    12 For our glory is in this, in the knowledge which we have that our way of life in the world, and most of all in relation to you, has been holy and true in the eyes of God; not in the wisdom of the flesh, but in the grace of God.

  • 2 Cor 2:12
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    12 Now when I came to Troas for the good news of Christ, and there was an open door for me in the Lord,

  • 2 Thess 2:1
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    1 Now as to the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, and our meeting with him, it is our desire, my brothers,

  • 1 Thess 2:5-6
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    5 For it is common knowledge among you that we never made use of smooth-sounding false words, and God is witness that at no time were we secretly desiring profit for ourselves,

    6 Or looking for glory from men, from you or from others, when we might have made ourselves a care to you as Apostles of Christ.

  • Gal 1:2
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    2 And all the brothers who are with me, to the churches of Galatia:

  • Gal 4:13
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    13 But you have knowledge that with a feeble body I was preaching the good news to you the first time;

  • 2 Cor 11:5-7
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    5 For in my opinion, I am in no way less than the most important of the Apostles.

    6 But though I am rough in my way of talking, I am not so in knowledge, as we have made clear to all by our acts among you.

    7 Or did I do wrong in making myself low so that you might be lifted up, because I gave you the good news of God without reward?

  • 1 Thess 1:8
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    8 For not only was the word of the Lord sounding out from you in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith in God is made clear; so that we have no need to say anything.

  • 1 Cor 14:6
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    6 But, now, my brothers, if I come to you using tongues, what profit will it be to you, if I do not give you a revelation, or knowledge, or the word of the prophet, or teaching?

  • 1 Cor 15:11
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    11 If then it is I who am the preacher, or they, this is our word, and to this you have given your faith.

  • Phil 1:17
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    17 But those are preaching Christ in a spirit of competition, not from their hearts, but with the purpose of giving me pain in my prison.

  • 2 Cor 11:17
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    17 What I am now saying is not by the order of the Lord, but as a foolish person, taking credit to myself, as it seems.

  • 3 John 1:3
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    3 For it gave me great joy when some of the brothers came and gave witness that you had the true faith and were walking in the true way.

  • 1 Cor 1:15
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    15 So that no one may be able to say that you had baptism in my name.

  • 2 Cor 1:1
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    1 Paul, an Apostle of Jesus Christ by the purpose of God, and Timothy the brother, to the church of God which is in Corinth, with all the saints who are in all Achaia:

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    18 And when they had come, he said to them, You yourselves have seen what my life has been like all the time from the day when I first came into Asia,

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    4 I say this so that you may not be turned away by any deceit of words.