1 Corinthians 1:22

World English Bible (2000)

For Jews ask for signs, Greeks seek after wisdom,

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  • Acts 17:18-21 : 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. 19 They took hold of him, and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, "May we know what this new teaching is, which is spoken by you? 20 For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean." 21 Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.
  • John 2:18 : 18 The Jews therefore answered him, "What sign do you show us, seeing that you do these things?"
  • Matt 12:38-39 : 38 Then certain of the scribes and Pharisees answered, "Teacher, we want to see a sign from you." 39 But he answered them, "An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, but no sign will be given it but the sign of Jonah the prophet.
  • Matt 16:1-4 : 1 The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing him, asked him to show them a sign from heaven. 2 But he answered them, "When it is evening, you say, 'It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.' 3 In the morning, 'It will be foul weather today, for the sky is red and threatening.' Hypocrites! You know how to discern the appearance of the sky, but you can't discern the signs of the times! 4 An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and there will be no sign given to it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah." He left them, and departed.
  • Mark 8:11 : 11 The Pharisees came out and began to question him, seeking from him a sign from heaven, and testing him.
  • Luke 11:16 : 16 Others, testing him, sought from him a sign from heaven.
  • Luke 11:20 : 20 But if I by the finger of God cast out demons, then the Kingdom of God has come to you.
  • John 4:28 : 28 So the woman left her water pot, and went away into the city, and said to the people,

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    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.

    26 For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble;

    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:

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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.

    18 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.

    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?

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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.

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    20 And again, "The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise, that it is worthless."

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    20 Now there were certain Greeks among those that went up to worship at the feast.

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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.

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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,

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    22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

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    18 The Jews therefore answered him, "What sign do you show us, seeing that you do these things?"

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    19 They took hold of him, and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, "May we know what this new teaching is, which is spoken by you?

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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?

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    5 But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.

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    15 "We, being Jews by nature, and not Gentile sinners,

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    21 testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.

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    38 Then certain of the scribes and Pharisees answered, "Teacher, we want to see a sign from you."

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    21 For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.

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    2 For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

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    14 I am debtor both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to the wise and to the foolish.

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