1 Corinthians 2:1

World English Bible (2000)

When I came to you, brothers, I didn't come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.

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  • 1 Cor 1:17 : 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.
  • 1 Cor 2:4 : 4 My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
  • 1 Cor 2:13 : 13 Which things also we speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.
  • Exod 4:10 : 10 Moses said to Yahweh, "O Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before now, nor since you have spoken to your servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue."
  • Isa 8:20 : 20 Turn to the law and to the testimony! If they don't speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.
  • Jer 1:6-7 : 6 Then I said, "Ah, Lord Yahweh! Behold, I don't know how to speak; for I am a child." 7 But Yahweh said to me, "Don't say, 'I am a child;' for to whoever I shall send you, you shall go, and whatever I shall command you, you shall speak.
  • Acts 18:1-4 : 1 After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth. 2 He found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by race, who had recently come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome. He came to them, 3 and because he practiced the same trade, he lived with them and worked, for by trade they were tent makers. 4 He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded Jews and Greeks.
  • Acts 20:21 : 21 testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.
  • Acts 22:18 : 18 and saw him saying to me, 'Hurry and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not receive testimony concerning me from you.'
  • Rom 16:18 : 18 For those who are such don't serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.
  • 1 Cor 1:6 : 6 even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:
  • 2 Cor 10:10 : 10 For, "His letters," they say, "are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is despised."
  • 2 Cor 11:6 : 6 But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to you in all things.
  • 2 Thess 1:10 : 10 when he comes to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired among all those who have believed (because our testimony to you was believed) in that day.
  • 1 Tim 1:11 : 11 according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.
  • 2 Tim 1:8 : 8 Therefore don't be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,
  • 1 John 4:14 : 14 We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world.
  • 1 John 5:11-13 : 11 The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 He who has the Son has the life. He who doesn't have God's Son doesn't have the life. 13 These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.
  • Rev 1:2 : 2 who testified to God's word, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, about everything that he saw.
  • Rev 1:9 : 9 I John, your brother and partner with you in oppression, Kingdom, and perseverance in Christ Jesus, was on the isle that is called Patmos because of God's Word and the testimony of Jesus Christ.
  • Rev 19:10 : 10 I fell down before his feet to worship him. He said to me, "Look! Don't do it! I am a fellow bondservant with you and with your brothers who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God, for the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy."

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

    3I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.

    4My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

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

    6We 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.

  • 1 Cor 1:17-19
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    17For 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.

    18For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are saved it is the power of God.

    19For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing."

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    5and 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.

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    23But I call God for a witness to my soul, that I didn't come to Corinth to spare you.

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    1For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you wasn't in vain,

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  • Gal 1:11-12
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    11But I make known to you, brothers, concerning the Good News which was preached by me, that it is not according to man.

    12For neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ.

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    16to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn't immediately confer with flesh and blood,

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    1Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand,

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    21For 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.

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    16For we did not follow cunningly devised fables, when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

  • Rom 1:13
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    13Now I don't desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you, and was hindered so far, that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.

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    15In this confidence, I was determined to come first to you, that you might have a second benefit;

    16and by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and to be sent forward by you on my journey to Judea.

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    1But I determined this for myself, that I would not come to you again in sorrow.

  • 1 Cor 3:1
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    1Brothers, I couldn't speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.

  • 2 Cor 12:1
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    1It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. For I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

  • 1 Cor 4:19
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    19But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord is willing. And I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power.

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    12Now I mean this, that each one of you says, "I follow Paul," "I follow Apollos," "I follow Cephas," and, "I follow Christ."

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    2I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.

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

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

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    9For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.

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    12For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

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    12Now when I came to Troas for the Good News of Christ, and when a door was opened to me in the Lord,

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    1Now, brothers, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together to him, we ask you

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    5For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),

    6nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.

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    2and all the brothers who are with me, to the assemblies of Galatia:

  • Gal 4:13
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    13but you know that because of weakness of the flesh I preached the Good News to you the first time.

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    5For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.

    6But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to you in all things.

    7Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God's Good News free of charge?

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    8For from you the word of the Lord has been declared, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God has gone out; so that we need not to say anything.

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    6But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking with other languages, what would I profit you, unless I speak to you either by way of revelation, or of knowledge, or of prophesying, or of teaching?

  • 1 Cor 15:11
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    11Whether then it is I or they, so we preach, and so you believed.

  • Phil 1:17
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    17but the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the Good News.

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    17That which I speak, I don't speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.

  • 3 John 1:3
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    3For I rejoiced greatly, when brothers came and testified about your truth, even as you walk in truth.

  • 1 Cor 1:15
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    15so that no one should say that I had baptized you into my own name.

  • 2 Cor 1:1
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    1Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the assembly of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:

  • Acts 20:18
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    18When they had come to him, he said to them, "You yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, how I was with you all the time,

  • Col 2:4
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    4Now this I say that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.