1 Corinthians 2:7

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Instead we speak the wisdom of God, hidden in a mystery, that God determined before the ages for our glory.

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  • Eph 3:4-9 : 4 When reading this, you will be able to understand my insight into the mystery of Christ 5 (which was not disclosed to people in former generations as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit), 6 namely, that through the gospel the Gentiles are fellow heirs, fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus. 7 I became a servant of this gospel according to the gift of God’s grace that was given to me by the exercise of his power. 8 To me– less than the least of all the saints– this grace was given, to proclaim to the Gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ 9 and to enlighten everyone about God’s secret plan– the mystery that has been hidden for ages in God who has created all things.
  • Rom 16:25-26 : 25 Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery that had been kept secret for long ages, 26 but now is disclosed, and through the prophetic scriptures has been made known to all the nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith–
  • Eph 1:4 : 4 For he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and blameless before him in love.
  • Ps 78:2 : 2 I will sing a song that imparts wisdom; I will make insightful observations about the past.
  • Isa 48:6-7 : 6 You have heard; now look at all the evidence! Will you not admit that what I say is true? From this point on I am announcing to you new events that are previously unrevealed and you do not know about. 7 Now they come into being, not in the past; before today you did not hear about them, so you could not say,‘Yes, I know about them.’
  • Matt 11:25 : 25 Jesus’ Invitation At that time Jesus said,“I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent, and have revealed them to little children.
  • Matt 13:35 : 35 This fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet:“I will open my mouth in parables, I will announce what has been hidden from the foundation of the world.”
  • Col 1:26-27 : 26 that is, the mystery that has been kept hidden from ages and generations, but has now been revealed to his saints. 27 God wanted to make known to them the glorious riches of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
  • 2 Tim 1:9 : 9 He is the one who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not based on our works but on his own purpose and grace, granted to us in Christ Jesus before time began,
  • 1 Pet 1:11 : 11 They probed into what person or time the Spirit of Christ within them was indicating when he testified beforehand about the sufferings appointed for Christ and his subsequent glory.
  • 1 Pet 5:1 : 1 Leading and Living in God’s Flock So as your fellow elder and a witness of Christ’s sufferings and as one who shares in the glory that will be revealed, I urge the elders among you:
  • 1 Pet 5:10 : 10 And, after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace who called you to his eternal glory in Christ will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.
  • 2 Pet 1:3 : 3 Believers’ Salvation and the Work of God I can pray this because his divine power has bestowed on us everything necessary for life and godliness through the rich knowledge of the one who called us by his own glory and excellence.
  • Rev 13:8 : 8 and all those who live on the earth will worship the beast, everyone whose name has not been written since the foundation of the world in the book of life belonging to the Lamb who was killed.

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  • 1 Cor 2:4-6
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    4My conversation and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

    5so that your faith would not be based on human wisdom but on the power of God.

    6Wisdom from God Now we do speak wisdom among the mature, but not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are perishing.

  • 1 Cor 2:8-10
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    8None of the rulers of this age understood it. If they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

    9But just as it is written,“Things that no eye has seen, or ear heard, or mind imagined, are the things God has prepared for those who love him.”

    10God has revealed these to us by the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

  • Eph 3:9-11
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    9and to enlighten everyone about God’s secret plan– the mystery that has been hidden for ages in God who has created all things.

    10The purpose of this enlightenment is that through the church the multifaceted wisdom of God should now be disclosed to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly realms.

    11This was according to the eternal purpose that he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord,

  • Col 2:2-3
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    2My goal is that their hearts, having been knit together in love, may be encouraged, and that they may have all the riches that assurance brings in their understanding of the knowledge of the mystery of God, namely, Christ,

    3in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

  • 1 Cor 1:18-25
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    18The Message of the Cross For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

    19For it is written,“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will thwart the cleverness of the intelligent.”

    20Where is the wise man? Where is the expert in the Mosaic law? Where is the debater of this age? Has God not made the wisdom of the world foolish?

    21For since in the wisdom of God the world by its wisdom did not know God, God was pleased to save those who believe by the foolishness of preaching.

    22For Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks ask for wisdom,

    23but we preach about a crucified Christ, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles.

    24But to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God.

    25For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.

  • Col 1:26-28
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    26that is, the mystery that has been kept hidden from ages and generations, but has now been revealed to his saints.

    27God wanted to make known to them the glorious riches of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

    28We proclaim him by instructing and teaching all people with all wisdom so that we may present every person mature in Christ.

  • 1 Cor 3:19-20
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    19For the wisdom of this age is foolishness with God. As it is written,“He catches the wise in their craftiness.”

    20And again,“The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.”

  • Eph 1:8-9
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    8that he lavished on us in all wisdom and insight.

    9He did this when he revealed to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure that he set forth in Christ,

  • 1 Cor 2:12-13
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    12Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things that are freely given to us by God.

    13And we speak about these things, not with words taught us by human wisdom, but with those taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual things to spiritual people.

  • 1 Cor 1:29-31
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    29so that no one can boast in his presence.

    30He is the reason you have a relationship with Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

    31so that, as it is written,“Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”

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    3that by revelation the mystery was made known to me, as I wrote before briefly.

    4When reading this, you will be able to understand my insight into the mystery of Christ

    5(which was not disclosed to people in former generations as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit),

  • 2 Cor 4:2-4
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    2But we have rejected shameful hidden deeds, not behaving with deceptiveness or distorting the word of God, but by open proclamation of the truth we commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience before God.

    3But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled only to those who are perishing,

    4among whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of those who do not believe so they would not see the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God.

  • Eph 1:17
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    17I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, will give you spiritual wisdom and revelation in your growing knowledge of him,

  • 2 Cor 4:6-7
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    6For God, who said“Let light shine out of darkness,” is the one who shined in our hearts to give us the light of the glorious knowledge of God in the face of Christ.

    7An Eternal Weight of Glory But we have this treasure in clay jars, so that the extraordinary power belongs to God and does not come from us.

  • 1 Cor 1:27
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    27But God chose what the world thinks foolish to shame the wise, and God chose what the world thinks weak to shame the strong.

  • Rom 16:25
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    25Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery that had been kept secret for long ages,

  • Eph 2:7
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    7to demonstrate in the coming ages the surpassing wealth of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

  • 2 Cor 1:12
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    12Paul Defends His Changed Plans For our reason for confidence is this: the testimony of our conscience, that with pure motives and sincerity which are from God– not by human wisdom but by the grace of God– we conducted ourselves in the world, and all the more toward you.

  • 2 Cor 3:10
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    10For indeed, what had been glorious now has no glory because of the tremendously greater glory of what replaced it.

  • 2 Cor 2:17
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    17For we are not like so many others, hucksters who peddle the word of God for profit, but we are speaking in Christ before God as persons of sincerity, as persons sent from God.

  • 1 Cor 2:16
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    16For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to advise him? But we have the mind of Christ.

  • Eph 2:10
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    10For we are his creative work, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works that God prepared beforehand so we can do them.

  • 1 Pet 1:20
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    20He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was manifested in these last times for your sake.

  • 1 Thess 2:4
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    4but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we declare it, not to please people but God, who examines our hearts.