1 Corinthians 2:7

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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

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  • Eph 3:4-9 : 4 in regard to which ye are able, reading `it', to understand my knowledge in the secret of the Christ, 5 which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it was now revealed to His holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit -- 6 that the nations be fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of His promise in the Christ, through the good news, 7 of which I became a ministrant, according to the gift of the grace of God that was given to me, according to the working of His power; 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, 9 and to cause all to see what `is' the fellowship of the secret that hath been hid from the ages in God, who the all things did create by Jesus Christ,
  • Rom 16:25-26 : 25 And to Him who is able to establish you, according to my good news, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the secret, in the times of the ages having been kept silent, 26 and now having been made manifest, also, through prophetic writings, according to a command of the age-during God, having been made known to all the nations for obedience of faith --
  • Eph 1:4 : 4 according as He did choose us in him before the foundation of the world, for our being holy and unblemished before Him, in love,
  • Ps 78:2 : 2 I open with a simile my mouth, I bring forth hidden things of old,
  • Isa 48:6-7 : 6 Thou hast heard, see the whole of it, And ye, do ye not declare? I have caused thee to hear new things from this time, And things reserved that ye knew not. 7 Now they have been produced and not from that time, Yea, before the day, and thou hast not heard them, Lest thou say, `Lo, I have known them.'
  • Matt 11:25 : 25 At that time Jesus answering said, `I do confess to Thee, Father, Lord of the heavens and of the earth, that thou didst hide these things from wise and understanding ones, and didst reveal them to babes.
  • Matt 13:35 : 35 that it might be fulfilled that was spoken through the prophet, saying, `I will open in similes my mouth, I will utter things having been hidden from the foundation of the world.'
  • Col 1:26-27 : 26 the secret that hath been hid from the ages and from the generations, but now was manifested to his saints, 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,
  • 2 Tim 1:9 : 9 who did save us, and did call with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace, that was given to us in Christ Jesus, before the times of the ages,
  • 1 Pet 1:11 : 11 searching in regard to what or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ that was in them was manifesting, testifying beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glory after these,
  • 1 Pet 5:1 : 1 Elders who `are' among you, I exhort, who `am' a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of the Christ, and of the glory about to be revealed a partaker,
  • 1 Pet 5:10 : 10 And the God of all grace, who did call you to His age-during glory in Christ Jesus, having suffered a little, Himself make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle `you';
  • 2 Pet 1:3 : 3 As all things to us His divine power (the things pertaining unto life and piety) hath given, through the acknowledgement of him who did call us through glory and worthiness,
  • Rev 13:8 : 8 And bow before it shall all who are dwelling upon the land, whose names have not been written in the scroll of the life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world;

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    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;

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    10 but to us did God reveal `them' through His Spirit, for the Spirit all things doth search, even the depths of God,

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    9 and to cause all to see what `is' the fellowship of the secret that hath been hid from the ages in God, who the all things did create by Jesus Christ,

    10 that there might be made known now to the principalities and the authorities in the heavenly `places', through the assembly, the manifold wisdom of God,

    11 according to a purpose of the ages, which He made in Christ Jesus our Lord,

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    2 that their hearts may be comforted, being united in love, and to all riches of the full assurance of the understanding, to the full knowledge of the secret of the God and Father, and of the Christ,

    3 in whom are all the treasures of the wisdom and the knowledge hid,

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    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,

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

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

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    26 the secret that hath been hid from the ages and from the generations, but now was manifested to his saints,

    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,

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

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    8 in which He did abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,

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    12 And we the spirit of the world did not receive, but the Spirit that `is' of God, that we may know the things conferred by God on us,

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    29 that no flesh may glory before Him;

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    2 but did renounce for ourselves the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor deceitfully using the word of God, but by the manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves unto every conscience of men, before God;

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    17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the recognition of him,

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    7 And we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us;

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    17 for we are not as the many, adulterating the word of God, but as of sincerity -- but as of God; in the presence of God, in Christ we do speak.

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    10 for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.

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    20 foreknown, indeed, before the foundation of the world, and manifested in the last times because of you,

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    4 but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who is proving our hearts,