1 Corinthians 2:4

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

And my wordes and my preachinge were not with entysynge wordes of manes wysdome: but in shewinge of ye sprete and of power

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  • Rom 15:19 : 19 in myghty signes and wonders by the power of the sprete of God: so that from Ierusalem and the costes rounde aboute vnto Illyricum I have fylled all countres with the gladde tydynges of Christ.
  • 1 Cor 1:17 : 17 For Christ sent me not to baptyse but to preache ye gospell not with wysdome of wordes lest the crosse of Christ shuld have bene made of none effecte.
  • 1 Cor 2:13 : 13 which thinges also we speake not in the conynge wordes of manes wysdome but with the conynge wordes of the holy goost makynge spretuall coparesons of spretuall thinges.
  • 1 Cor 4:20 : 20 for ye kyngdome of God is not in wordes but in power.
  • 1 Cor 2:1 : 1 And I brethren when I came to you came not in gloriousnes of wordes or of wysdome shewynge vnto you the testimony of God.
  • 1 Thess 1:5 : 5 For oure gospell came not vnto you in worde only but also in power and also in the holy gost and in moche certayntie as ye knowe after what maner we behaued oure selves amonge you for youre sakes.
  • 2 Pet 1:16 : 16 For we folowed not decevable fables whe we openned vnto you the power and commynge of oure LORde Iesus Christ but with oure eyes we sawe his maieste:
  • 2 Pet 2:18 : 18 For when they have spoke the swellinge wordes of vanytie they begyle wt wantanes thorowe yt lustes of the flesshe them that were clene escaped: but now are wrapped in errours.
  • 1 Pet 1:12 : 12 vnto which Prophetes it was declared that not vnto them selves but vnto vs they shuld minister the thinges which are now shewed vnto you of them which by ye holy goost sent doune fro heven have preached vnto you the thinges which the angels desyre to beholde.
  • Gal 1:10 : 10 Preache I mannes doctrine or Godes? Ether go I about to please men? If I stodyed to please men I were not the servaunt of Christ.
  • Col 2:4 : 4 This I saye lest eny man shuld begyle you with entysinge wordes.
  • Rom 16:18 : 18 For they yt are suche serve not ye Lorde Iesus Christ: but their awne bellyes and with swete preachinges and flatteringe wordes deceave the hertes of the innocetes.
  • John 16:8-9 : 8 And when he is come he will rebuke ye worlde of synne and of rightwesnes and of iudgement. 9 Of synne because they beleve not on me: 10 Of rightwesnes because I go to my father and ye shall se me no moare: 11 and of iudgement because the chefe ruler of this worlde is iudged all ready. 12 I have yet many thinges to saye vnto you: but ye canot beare them awaye now. 13 How be it when he is come (I meane the sprete of truthe) he will leade yon into all trueth. He shall not speake of him selfe: but whatsoever he shall heare that shall he speake and he will shewe you thinges to come. 14 He shall glorify me for he shall receave of myne and shall shewe vnto you. 15 All thinges that ye father hath aremyne. Therfore sayd I vnto you that he shall take of myne and shewe vnto you.
  • Acts 20:27 : 27 For I have kepte nothinge backe: but have shewed you all the counsell of God.
  • Acts 26:28 : 28 Agrippa sayde vnto Paul: Sumwhat thou bringest me in mynde for to be come a Christen.

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  • 1 Cor 2:5-7
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    5that youre fayth shuld not stonde in ye wysdome of me but in yt power of God.

    6That we speake of is wysdome amonge them that are perfecte: not the wysdome of this worlde nether of the rulars of this worlde (which go to nought)

    7but we speake ye wysdome of God which is in secrete and lieth hyd which God ordeyned before the worlde vnto oure glory:

  • 1 Cor 2:1-3
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    1And I brethren when I came to you came not in gloriousnes of wordes or of wysdome shewynge vnto you the testimony of God.

    2Nether shewed I my selfe that I knewe eny thinge amonge you save Iesus Christ eve the same that was crucified.

    3And I was amoge you in weaknes and in feare and in moche treblinge.

  • 1 Cor 4:19-21
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    19But I will come to you shortely yf God will: and will knowe not ye wordes of the which swell but ye power:

    20for ye kyngdome of God is not in wordes but in power.

    21What will ye? Shall I come vnto you with a rodde or els in love and in the sprete of mekenes?

  • 1 Thess 1:5
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    5For oure gospell came not vnto you in worde only but also in power and also in the holy gost and in moche certayntie as ye knowe after what maner we behaued oure selves amonge you for youre sakes.

  • 1 Cor 1:17-19
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    17For Christ sent me not to baptyse but to preache ye gospell not with wysdome of wordes lest the crosse of Christ shuld have bene made of none effecte.

    18For ye preachinge of the crosse is to them yt perisshe folishnes: but vnto vs which are saved it is ye power of God.

    19For it is written: I will destroye the wysdome of the wyse and will cast awaye the vnderstondinge of the prudet.

  • Col 2:4
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    4This I saye lest eny man shuld begyle you with entysinge wordes.

  • 1 Cor 2:13
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    13which thinges also we speake not in the conynge wordes of manes wysdome but with the conynge wordes of the holy goost makynge spretuall coparesons of spretuall thinges.

  • 2 Cor 13:3-4
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    3seynge yt ye seke experience of Christ which speaketh in me which amoge you is not weake but is myghty in you.

    4And verely though it came of weaknes that he was crucified yet liveth he thorow the power of God. And we no dout are weake in him: but we shall live with him by the myght of God amonge you.

  • 1 Cor 1:21
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    21Hath not God made the wysdome of this worlde folisshnes? For when the worlde thorow wysdome knew not God in ye wysdome of God: it pleased God thorow folisshnes of preachinge to save them yt beleve.

  • Rom 15:18-20
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    18For I dare not speake of eny of tho thinges which Christ hath not wrought by me to make the gentyls obedient with worde and dede

    19in myghty signes and wonders by the power of the sprete of God: so that from Ierusalem and the costes rounde aboute vnto Illyricum I have fylled all countres with the gladde tydynges of Christ.

    20So have I enforsed my selfe to preache the gospell not where Christ was named lest I shuld have bylt on another mannes foundacion:

  • Gal 1:11
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    11I certifie you brethren that the gospell which was preached of me was not after the maner of men

  • 1 Thess 2:1-6
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    1For ye youre selves knowe brethren of oure entraunce in vnto you howe that it was not in vayne:

    2but even after that we had suffered before and were shamfully entreated at Phillippos (as ye well knowe) then were we bolde in oure God to speake vnto you the gospell of God with moche strivynge.

    3Oure exhortacion was not to brynge you to erroure nor yet to vnclennes nether was it with gyle:

    4but as we were alowed of God that the gospell shuld be comitted vnto vs: even so we speake not as though we entended to please men but God which trieth oure hertes.

    5Nether was oure conversacion at eny tyme wt flatterynge wordes as ye well knowe nether in cloked coveteousnes God is recorde:

    6nether sought we prayse of men nether of you nor yet of eny other when we myght have bene chargeable as the apostles of Christ

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    2but have cast from vs the clokes of vnhonestie and walke not in craftines nether corrupte we the worde of God: but walke in open trueth and reporte oure selves to every mannes conscience in the sight of God.

  • 2 Cor 10:9-10
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    9This saye I lest I shuld seme as though I went about to make you a frayde with letters.

    10For ye pistles (sayth he) are sore and stronge: but his bodyly presence is weake and his speache rude.

  • 1 Cor 1:24-25
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    24but vnto the which are called both of Iewes and Grekes we preache Christ ye power of God and the wysdome of God.

    25For the folishnes of God is wyser then me: and the weakenes of God is stronger then men.

  • 2 Thess 3:9
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    9not but that we had auctoritie: but to make oure selves an insample vnto you to folowe vs.

  • Gal 4:13
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    13Ye knowe how thorow infirmite of the flesshe I preached the gospell vnto you at the fyrst.

  • 2 Pet 1:16
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    16For we folowed not decevable fables whe we openned vnto you the power and commynge of oure LORde Iesus Christ but with oure eyes we sawe his maieste:

  • 1 Thess 1:8
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    8For from you sounded out the worde of the LORde not in Macedonia and in Achaia only: but youre fayth also which ye have vnto god spred her silfe abroade in all quartars so greatly that it nedeth not vs to speake eny thynge at all.

  • 2 Cor 4:7
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    7But we have this treasure in erthe vessels that ye excellent power of it myght appere to be of God and not of vs.

  • Col 4:4
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    4yt I maye vtter it as it becometh me to speake.

  • 2 Cor 2:17
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    17For we are not as many are which choppe and chaunge with the worde of God: but even oute of purenes and by the power of God and in the sight of God so speake we in Christ.

  • 2 Cor 1:12
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    12Oure reioysynge is this the testimony of oure coscience yt in synglenes and godly purenes and not in flesshly wysdome but by the grace of God we have had oure conuersacion in the worlde and most of all to you wardes.

  • 2 Tim 1:7
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    7For god hath not geven to vs the sprete of feare: but of power and of love and of sobrenes of mynde.

  • Phil 1:14
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    14In so moche that many of the brethre in ye LORde are boldned thorow my bodes and dare more largely speake the worde with out feare.

  • 2 Cor 4:5
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    5For we preache not oure selves but Christ Iesus to be the Lorde and oure selves youre servautes for Iesus sake.

  • Col 1:29
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    29Wherin I also laboure and stryve even as farforth as hys workynge worketh in me myghtely.

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    17That I speake I speake it not after the wayes of the LORde: but as it were folysshly whill we are now come to bostynge.

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    6Though I be rude in speakynge yet I am not so in knowledge. How be it amonge you we are knowen to the vtmost what we are in all thynges.

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    4For the weapes of oure warre are not carnall thinges but thynges myghty in god to cast doune stronge holdes

  • 2 Cor 13:10
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    10Therfore write I these thinges beynge absent lest when I am present I shuld vse sharpenes accordinge to the power which the Lorde hath geven me to edifie and not to destroye.