Verse 1
1 Corinthians 2:1
World English Bible
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When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God (Elohim).
Original Language Text
greek
Κἀγὼ ἐλθὼν πρὸς ὑμᾶς, ἀδελφοί, ἦλθον οὐ καθ’ ὑπεροχὴν λόγου ἢ σοφίας καταγγέλλων ὑμῖν τὸ ⸀μαρτύριον τοῦ θεοῦ.
English Translation
And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come with superiority of speech or wisdom proclaiming to you the testimony of God.
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Chapter 2 Context
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When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to y...
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For I determined not to know anything among you, except Yashua (Jesus) Christ, and him crucified.
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I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.
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My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the...
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that your faith wouldn’t stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God (Elohim).
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We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown; yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the...
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But we speak God (Elohim)’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God (Elohim)...
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which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn’t have crucifie...
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But as it is written,
“Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear,
which didn’t enter in...
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But to us, God (Elohim) revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, t...
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For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so,...
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But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God (Elohim), that we mig...
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Which things also we speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teach...
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Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God (Elohim)’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to...
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But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one.
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“For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?”
But we have Christ’s mind.
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