1 Corinthians 2:1

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And I, having come unto you, brethren, came -- not in superiority of discourse or wisdom -- declaring to you the testimony of God,

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  • 1 Cor 1:17 : 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;
  • 1 Cor 2:4 : 4 and my word and my preaching was 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 taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Holy Spirit, with spiritual things spiritual things comparing,
  • Exod 4:10 : 10 And Moses saith unto Jehovah, `O, my Lord, I `am' not a man of words, either yesterday, or before, or since Thy speaking unto Thy servant, for I `am' slow of mouth, and slow of tongue.'
  • Isa 8:20 : 20 To the law and to the testimony! If not, let them say after this manner, `That there is no dawn to it.'
  • Jer 1:6-7 : 6 And I say, `Ah, Lord Jehovah! lo, I have not known -- to speak, for I `am' a youth.' 7 And Jehovah saith unto me, `Do not say, I `am' a youth, for to all to whom I send thee thou goest, and all that I command thee thou speakest.
  • Acts 18:1-4 : 1 And after these things, Paul having departed out of Athens, came to Corinth, 2 and having found a certain Jew, by name Aquilas, of Pontus by birth, lately come from Italy, and Priscilla his wife -- because of Claudius having directed all the Jews to depart out of Rome -- he came to them, 3 and because of being of the same craft, he did remain with them, and was working, for they were tent-makers as to craft; 4 and he was reasoning in the synagogue every sabbath, persuading both Jews and Greeks.
  • Acts 20:21 : 21 testifying fully both to Jews and Greeks, toward God reformation, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • Acts 22:18 : 18 and I saw him saying to me, Haste and go forth in haste out of Jerusalem, because they will not receive thy testimony concerning me;
  • Rom 16:18 : 18 for such our Lord Jesus Christ do not serve, but their own belly; and through the good word and fair speech they deceive the hearts of the harmless,
  • 1 Cor 1:6 : 6 according as the testimony of the Christ was confirmed in you,
  • 2 Cor 10:10 : 10 `because the letters indeed -- saith one -- `are' weighty and strong, and the bodily presence weak, and the speech despicable.'
  • 2 Cor 11:6 : 6 and even if unlearned in word -- yet not in knowledge, but in every thing we were made manifest in all things to you.
  • 2 Thess 1:10 : 10 when He may come to be glorified in his saints, and to be wondered at in all those believing -- because our testimony was believed among you -- in that day;
  • 1 Tim 1:11 : 11 according to the good news of the glory of the blessed God, with which I was entrusted.
  • 2 Tim 1:8 : 8 therefore thou mayest not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but do thou suffer evil along with the good news according to the power of God,
  • 1 John 4:14 : 14 And we -- we have seen and do testify, that the Father hath sent the Son -- Saviour of the world;
  • 1 John 5:11-13 : 11 and this is the testimony, that life age-during did God give to us, and this -- the life -- is in His Son; 12 he who is having the Son, hath the life; he who is not having the Son of God -- the life he hath not. 13 These things I did write to you who are believing in the name of the Son of God, that ye may know that life ye have age-during, and that ye may believe in the name of the Son of God.
  • Rev 1:2 : 2 who did testify the word of God, and the testimony of Jesus Christ, as many things also as he did see.
  • Rev 1:9 : 9 I, John, who also `am' your brother, and fellow-partner in the tribulation, and in the reign and endurance, of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, because of the word of God, and because of the testimony of Jesus Christ;
  • Rev 19:10 : 10 and I fell before his feet, to bow before him, and he saith to me, `See -- not! fellow servant of thee am I, and of thy brethren, those having the testimony of Jesus; bow before God, for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of the prophecy.'

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  • 1 Cor 2:2-6
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    2for I decided not to know any thing among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified;

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

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

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

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

  • 1 Cor 1:17-19
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    17For 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;

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

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

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    5because our good news did not come to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance, even as ye have known of what sort we became among you because of you,

  • 2 Cor 1:23
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    23And I for a witness on God do call upon my soul, that sparing you, I came not yet to Corinth;

  • 1 Thess 2:1-2
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    1For yourselves have known, brethren, our entrance in unto you, that it did not become vain,

    2but having both suffered before, and having been injuriously treated (as ye have known) in Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the good news of God in much conflict,

  • Gal 1:11-12
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    11And I make known to you, brethren, the good news that were proclaimed by me, that it is not according to man,

    12for neither did I from man receive it, nor was I taught `it', but through a revelation of Jesus Christ,

  • Gal 1:16
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    16to reveal His Son in me, that I might proclaim him good news among the nations, immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood,

  • 1 Cor 15:1
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    1And I make known to you, brethren, the good news that I proclaimed to you, which also ye did receive, in which also ye have stood,

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    21for, 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.

  • 2 Pet 1:16
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    16For, skilfully devised fables not having followed out, we did make known to you the power and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, but eye-witnesses having become of his majesty --

  • Rom 1:13
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    13And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that many times I did purpose to come unto you -- and was hindered till the present time -- that some fruit I might have also among you, even as also among the other nations.

  • 2 Cor 1:15-16
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    15and in this confidence I was purposing to come unto you before, that a second favour ye might have,

    16and through you to pass to Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come unto you, and by you to be sent forward to Judea.

  • 2 Cor 2:1
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    1And I decided this to myself, not again to come in sorrow unto you,

  • 1 Cor 3:1
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    1And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly -- as to babes in Christ;

  • 2 Cor 12:1
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    1To boast, really, is not profitable for me, for I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

  • 1 Cor 4:19
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    19but I will come quickly unto you, if the Lord may will, and I will know not the word of those puffed up, but the power;

  • 1 Cor 1:12
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    12and 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.'

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    2and I went up by revelation, and did submit to them the good news that I preach among the nations, and privately to those esteemed, lest in vain I might run or did run;

  • 1 Cor 1:23-24
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    23also we -- we preach Christ crucified, to Jews, indeed, a stumbling-block, and to Greeks foolishness,

    24and to those called -- both Jews and Greeks -- Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God,

  • 1 Thess 2:9
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    9for ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail, for, night and day working not to be a burden upon any of you, we did preach to you the good news of God;

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    12For our glorying is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we did conduct ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you;

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    12And having come to Troas for the good news of the Christ, and a door to me having been opened in the Lord,

  • 2 Thess 2:1
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    1And we ask you, brethren, in regard to the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, and of our gathering together unto him,

  • 1 Thess 2:5-6
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    5for at no time did we come with speech of flattery, (as ye have known,) nor in a pretext for covetousness, (God `is' witness!)

    6nor seeking of men glory, neither from you nor from others, being able to be burdensome, as Christ's apostles.

  • Gal 1:2
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    2and all the brethren with me, to the assemblies of Galatia:

  • Gal 4:13
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    13and ye have known that through infirmity of the flesh I did proclaim good news to you at the first,

  • 2 Cor 11:5-7
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    5for I reckon that I have been nothing behind the very chiefest apostles,

    6and even if unlearned in word -- yet not in knowledge, but in every thing we were made manifest in all things to you.

    7The sin did I do -- myself humbling that ye might be exalted, because freely the good news of God I did proclaim to you?

  • 1 Thess 1:8
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    8for from you hath sounded forth the word of the Lord, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God did go forth, so that we have no need to say anything,

  • 1 Cor 14:6
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    6And now, brethren, if I may come unto you speaking tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either in revelation, or in knowledge, or in prophesying, or in teaching?

  • 1 Cor 15:11
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    11whether, then, I or they, so we preach, and so ye did believe.

  • Phil 1:17
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    17and the other out of love, having known that for defence of the good news I am set:

  • 2 Cor 11:17
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    17That which I speak, I speak not according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this the confidence of boasting;

  • 3 John 1:3
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    3for I rejoiced exceedingly, brethren coming and testifying of the truth in thee, even as thou in truth dost walk;

  • 1 Cor 1:15
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    15that no one may say that to my own name I did baptize;

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

  • Acts 20:18
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    18and when they were come unto him, he said to them, `Ye -- ye know from the first day in which I came to Asia, how, with you at all times I was;

  • Col 2:4
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    4and this I say, that no one may beguile you in enticing words,