1 Corinthians 1:23

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

also we -- we preach Christ crucified, to Jews, indeed, a stumbling-block, and to Greeks foolishness,

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  • 1 Cor 2:14 : 14 and the natural man doth not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for to him they are foolishness, and he is not able to know `them', because spiritually they are discerned;
  • 1 Pet 2:8 : 8 and a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence -- who are stumbling at the word, being unbelieving, -- to which also they were set;
  • 1 Cor 2:2 : 2 for I decided not to know any thing among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified;
  • Gal 5:11 : 11 And I, brethren, if uncircumcision I yet preach, why yet am I persecuted? then hath the stumbling-block of the cross been done away;
  • Luke 2:34 : 34 and Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother, `Lo, this `one' is set for the falling and rising again of many in Israel, and for a sign spoken against --
  • Isa 8:14-15 : 14 And He hath been for a sanctuary, And for a stone of stumbling, and for a rock of falling, To the two houses of Israel, For a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 15 And many among them have stumbled and fallen, And been broken, and snared, and captured.
  • Gal 3:1 : 1 O thoughtless Galatians, who did bewitch you, not to obey the truth -- before whose eyes Jesus Christ was described before among you crucified?
  • 1 Cor 1:18 : 18 for the word of the cross to those indeed perishing is foolishness, and to us -- those being saved -- it is the power of God,
  • 1 Cor 1:28 : 28 and the base things of the world, and the things despised did God choose, and the things that are not, that the things that are He may make useless --
  • 2 Cor 4:5 : 5 for not ourselves do we preach, but Christ Jesus -- Lord, and ourselves your servants because of Jesus;
  • Gal 6:14 : 14 And for me, let it not be -- to glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which to me the world hath been crucified, and I to the world;
  • Eph 3:8 : 8 to me -- the less than the least of all the saints -- was given this grace, among the nations to proclaim good news -- the untraceable riches of the Christ,
  • Matt 11:6 : 6 and happy is he who may not be stumbled in me.'
  • Matt 13:57 : 57 and they were stumbled at him. And Jesus said to them, `A prophet is not without honor except in his own country, and in his own house:'
  • Acts 10:39-43 : 39 and we -- we are witnesses of all things that he did, both in the country of the Jews, and in Jerusalem, -- whom they did slay, having hanged upon a tree. 40 `This one God did raise up the third day, and gave him to become manifest, 41 not to all the people, but to witnesses, to those having been chosen before by God -- to us who did eat with `him', and did drink with him, after his rising out of the dead; 42 and he commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify fully that it is he who hath been ordained by God judge of living and dead -- 43 to this one do all the prophets testify, that through his name every one that is believing in him doth receive remission of sins.'
  • Rom 9:32-33 : 32 wherefore? because -- not by faith, but as by works of law; for they did stumble at the stone of stumbling, 33 according as it hath been written, `Lo, I place in Sion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence; and every one who is believing thereon shall not be ashamed.'
  • Luke 24:46-47 : 46 and he said to them -- `Thus it hath been written, and thus it was behoving the Christ to suffer, and to rise out of the dead the third day, 47 and reformation and remission of sins to be proclaimed in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem:
  • John 6:53-66 : 53 Jesus, therefore, said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, If ye may not eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and may not drink his blood, ye have no life in yourselves; 54 he who is eating my flesh, and is drinking my blood, hath life age-during, and I will raise him up in the last day; 55 for my flesh truly is food, and my blood truly is drink; 56 he who is eating my flesh, and is drinking my blood, doth remain in me, and I in him. 57 `According as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, he also who is eating me, even that one shall live because of me; 58 this is the bread that came down out of the heaven; not as your fathers did eat the manna, and died; he who is eating this bread shall live -- to the age.' 59 These things he said in a synagogue, teaching in Capernaum; 60 many, therefore, of his disciples having heard, said, `This word is hard; who is able to hear it?' 61 And Jesus having known in himself that his disciples are murmuring about this, said to them, `Doth this stumble you? 62 if then ye may behold the Son of Man going up where he was before? 63 the spirit it is that is giving life; the flesh doth not profit anything; the sayings that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life; 64 but there are certain of you who do not believe;' for Jesus had known from the beginning who they are who are not believing, and who is he who will deliver him up, 65 and he said, `Because of this I have said to you -- No one is able to come unto me, if it may not have been given him from my Father.' 66 From this `time' many of his disciples went away backward, and were no more walking with him,
  • Acts 7:32-35 : 32 I `am' the God of thy fathers; the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. `And Moses having become terrified, durst not behold, 33 and the Lord said to him, Loose the sandal of thy feet, for the place in which thou hast stood is holy ground; 34 seeing I have seen the affliction of My people that `is' in Egypt, and their groaning I did hear, and came down to deliver them; and now come, I will send thee to Egypt. 35 `This Moses, whom they did refuse, saying, Who did set thee a ruler and a judge? this one God a ruler and a redeemer did send, in the hand of a messenger who appeared to him in the bush;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Cor 1:17-22
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    17 For Christ did not send me to baptize, but -- to proclaim good news; not in wisdom of discourse, that the cross of the Christ may not be made of none effect;

    18 for the word of the cross to those indeed perishing is foolishness, and to us -- those being saved -- it is the power of God,

    19 for it hath been written, `I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the intelligence of the intelligent I will bring to nought;'

    20 where `is' the wise? where the scribe? where a disputer of this age? did not God make foolish the wisdom of this world?

    21 for, seeing in the wisdom of God the world through the wisdom knew not God, it did please God through the foolishness of the preaching to save those believing.

    22 Since also Jews ask a sign, and Greeks seek wisdom,

  • 1 Cor 1:24-30
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    24 and to those called -- both Jews and Greeks -- Christ 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 see your calling, brethren, that not many `are' wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble;

    27 but the foolish things of the world did God choose, that the wise He may put to shame; and the weak things of the world did God choose that He may put to shame the strong;

    28 and the base things of the world, and the things despised did God choose, and the things that are not, that the things that are He may make useless --

    29 that no flesh may glory before Him;

    30 and of Him ye -- ye are in Christ Jesus, who became to us from God wisdom, righteousness also, and sanctification, and redemption,

  • 1 Cor 2:1-8
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    1 And I, having come unto you, brethren, came -- not in superiority of discourse or wisdom -- declaring to you the testimony of God,

    2 for I decided not to know any thing among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified;

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

    4 and my word and my preaching was not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power --

    5 that your faith may not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

    6 And wisdom we speak among the perfect, and wisdom not of this age, nor of the rulers of this age -- of those becoming useless,

    7 but we speak the hidden wisdom of God in a secret, that God foreordained before the ages to our glory,

    8 which no one of the rulers of this age did know, for if they had known, the Lord of the glory they would not have crucified;

  • Gal 3:1
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    1 O thoughtless Galatians, who did bewitch you, not to obey the truth -- before whose eyes Jesus Christ was described before among you crucified?

  • 1 Cor 3:18-19
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    18 Let no one deceive himself; if any one doth seem to be wise among you in this age -- let him become a fool, that he may become wise,

    19 for the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, for it hath been written, `Who is taking the wise in their craftiness;'

  • Gal 6:14
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    14 And for me, let it not be -- to glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which to me the world hath been crucified, and I to the world;

  • 1 Cor 4:10
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    10 we `are' fools because of Christ, and ye wise in Christ; we `are' ailing, and ye strong; ye glorious, and we dishonoured;

  • 2 Cor 4:3-5
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    3 and if also our good news is vailed, in those perishing it is vailed,

    4 in whom the god of this age did blind the minds of the unbelieving, that there doth not shine forth to them the enlightening of the good news of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God;

    5 for not ourselves do we preach, but Christ Jesus -- Lord, and ourselves your servants because of Jesus;

  • 1 Cor 1:12-13
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    12 and I say this, that each one of you saith, `I, indeed, am of Paul' -- `and I of Apollos,' -- `and I of Cephas,' -- `and I of Christ.'

    13 Hath the Christ been divided? was Paul crucified for you? or to the name of Paul were ye baptized;

  • 1 Pet 2:8
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    8 and a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence -- who are stumbling at the word, being unbelieving, -- to which also they were set;

  • Rom 1:16
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    16 for I am not ashamed of the good news of the Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation to every one who is believing, both to Jew first, and to Greek.

  • Rom 9:32-33
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    32 wherefore? because -- not by faith, but as by works of law; for they did stumble at the stone of stumbling,

    33 according as it hath been written, `Lo, I place in Sion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence; and every one who is believing thereon shall not be ashamed.'

  • Rom 1:22-23
    2 verses
    68%

    22 professing to be wise, they were made fools,

    23 and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of fowls, and of quadrupeds, and of reptiles.

  • Rom 3:9
    68%

    9 What, then? are we better? not at all! for we did before charge both Jews and Greeks with being all under sin,

  • Phil 1:15-16
    2 verses
    67%

    15 Certain, indeed, even through envy and contention, and certain also through good-will, do preach the Christ;

    16 the one, indeed, of rivalry the Christ do proclaim, not purely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds,

  • Gal 5:11
    67%

    11 And I, brethren, if uncircumcision I yet preach, why yet am I persecuted? then hath the stumbling-block of the cross been done away;

  • 1 Cor 10:32
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    32 become offenceless, both to Jews and Greeks, and to the assembly of God;

  • Col 1:27-28
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    27 to whom God did will to make known what `is' the riches of the glory of this secret among the nations -- which is Christ in you, the hope of the glory,

    28 whom we proclaim, warning every man, and teaching every man, in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus,

  • 1 Cor 2:14
    67%

    14 and the natural man doth not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for to him they are foolishness, and he is not able to know `them', because spiritually they are discerned;

  • 2 Cor 2:15
    66%

    15 because of Christ a sweet fragrance we are to God, in those being saved, and in those being lost;

  • Eph 4:17
    66%

    17 This, then, I say, and I testify in the Lord; ye are no more to walk, as also the other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind,

  • 1 Thess 2:15
    65%

    15 who did both put to death the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and did persecute us, and God they are not pleasing, and to all men `are' contrary,

  • 2 Cor 5:13
    65%

    13 for whether we were beside ourselves, `it was' to God; whether we be of sound mind -- `it is' to you,

  • 1 Cor 3:11
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    11 for other foundation no one is able to lay except that which is laid, which is Jesus the Christ;

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