1 Corinthians 1:18

World English Bible (2000)

For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are saved it is the power of God.

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  • 1 Cor 2:14 : 14 Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
  • 1 Cor 1:23-25 : 23 but we preach Christ crucified; a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks, 24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
  • Rom 1:16 : 16 For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.
  • 2 Cor 4:3 : 3 Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who perish;
  • 2 Thess 2:10 : 10 and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn't receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
  • Heb 4:12 : 12 For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
  • 1 Cor 1:21 : 21 For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn't know God, it was God's good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.
  • 1 Cor 2:2 : 2 For I determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
  • Acts 13:41 : 41 'Behold, you scoffers, and wonder, and perish; for I work a work in your days, a work which you will in no way believe, if one declares it to you.'"
  • Acts 17:18 : 18 Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, "What does this babbler want to say?" Others said, "He seems to be advocating foreign deities," because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.
  • Acts 17:32 : 32 Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, "We want to hear you again concerning this."
  • 2 Cor 10:4 : 4 for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds,
  • Gal 6:12-14 : 12 As many as desire to look good in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ. 13 For even they who receive circumcision don't keep the law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh. 14 But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
  • 1 Thess 1:5 : 5 and that our Good News came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake.
  • 1 Cor 3:19 : 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, "He has taken the wise in their craftiness."
  • 1 Cor 15:2 : 2 by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you--unless you believed in vain.
  • 2 Cor 2:15-16 : 15 For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God, in those who are saved, and in those who perish; 16 to the one a stench from death to death; to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?
  • Ps 110:2-3 : 2 Yahweh will send forth the rod of your strength out of Zion. Rule in the midst of your enemies. 3 Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning, you have the dew of your youth.
  • Acts 2:47 : 47 praising God, and having favor with all the people. The Lord added to the assembly day by day those who were being saved.

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  • 1 Cor 1:19-25
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    19 For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing."

    20 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Hasn't God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

    21 For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn't know God, it was God's good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.

    22 For Jews ask for signs, Greeks seek after wisdom,

    23 but we preach Christ crucified; a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,

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

    25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

  • 1 Cor 1:17
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    17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Good News--not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ wouldn't be made void.

  • Gal 6:14
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    14 But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

  • 1 Cor 2:1-2
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    1 When I came to you, brothers, I didn't come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.

    2 For I determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

  • 1 Cor 2:4-8
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    4 My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

    5 that your faith wouldn't stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

    6 We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown; yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing.

    7 But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory,

    8 which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn't have crucified the Lord of glory.

  • 1 Cor 3:18-19
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    18 Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

    19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, "He has taken the wise in their craftiness."

  • Rom 1:16-17
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    16 For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

    17 For in it is revealed God's righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, "But the righteous shall live by faith."

  • 1 Cor 1:27-30
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    27 but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong;

    28 and God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that are not, that he might bring to nothing the things that are:

    29 that no flesh should boast before God.

    30 But of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

  • 2 Cor 4:3-5
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    3 Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who perish;

    4 in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

    5 For we don't preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake;

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    1 Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth among you as crucified?

  • 1 Cor 4:10
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    10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.

  • 2 Cor 13:3-4
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    3 seeing that you seek a proof of Christ who speaks in me; who toward you is not weak, but is powerful in you.

    4 For he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we will live with him through the power of God toward you.

  • 2 Cor 2:15-16
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    15 For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God, in those who are saved, and in those who perish;

    16 to the one a stench from death to death; to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?

  • 1 Cor 2:14
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    14 Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

  • 1 Thess 1:5
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    5 and that our Good News came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake.

  • Rom 1:22
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    22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

  • Phil 1:28
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    28 and in nothing frightened by the adversaries, which is for them a proof of destruction, but to you of salvation, and that from God.

  • 1 Cor 4:20
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    20 For the Kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.

  • 1 Cor 1:13
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    13 Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized into the name of Paul?

  • Eph 1:19
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    19 and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might

  • Gal 5:11
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    11 But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.

  • 1 Cor 15:1-3
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    1 Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand,

    2 by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you--unless you believed in vain.

    3 For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

  • 2 Thess 2:10
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    10 and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn't receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

  • 2 Cor 4:7
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    7 But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.

  • Rom 16:25
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  • 2 Cor 5:13
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    13 For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God. Or if we are of sober mind, it is for you.

  • Phil 1:16
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    16 The former insincerely preach Christ from selfish ambition, thinking that they add affliction to my chains;

  • 1 Pet 1:25
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    25 but the Lord's word endures forever." This is the word of Good News which was preached to you.