1 Corinthians 2:1 Cross References - MNT

¹ And when I came to you, brothers, I came not to proclaim God's great secret purpose in fine language of philosophy;

¹ After this Paul left Athens and went to Corinth. ² Here he found a certain Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife, Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all Jews to leave Rome. ³ Paul came to them, and because he was of the same trade with them, he lodged with them, and worked with them—for by trade they were tentmakers. ⁴ Every Sabbath he used to preach in the synagogue, and tried to persuade both Jews and Greeks.

²¹ testifying both to Jews and Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁸ "I fell into a trance and saw him saying to me, "'Make haste and go quickly out of Jerusalem, because they will not receive your testimony concerning me.'

¹⁸ Turn away from them. For men of that stamp are not the slaves of Christ, but are slaves to their own appetites. By their smooth and fair speech they beguile the hearts of the innocent.

⁶ (for thus my witness for Christ was confirmed among you);

¹⁷ For Christ did not think I baptized any one else. For Christ did not send me forth to baptize, but to proclaim the gospel; and that not in philosophic words, lest the Cross of Christ should be made an empty thing.

⁴ My message and my preaching were not in the persuasive language of philosophy, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power;

¹³ Of these high themes we speak in words not taught by human philosophy, but by the Spirit; interpreting spiritual things to spiritual men.

¹⁰ "His letters indeed," says one, "are mighty and forcible, but his personality is weak, and his speech contemptible."

⁶ Yes, though I be unskilled in speech, at least I am not in knowledge; indeed I made this perfectly plain to you in all things and among all men.

¹⁰ when he comes to be glorified in his saints, and to be wondered at in all believers, on that Day; (for you also believed our testimony). ¹¹ as laid down in the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which has been entrusted to me.

⁸ Do not then be ashamed to bear witness for our Lord, nor for me, his prisoner. Nay, join with me in suffering for the gospel by the power of God.

¹⁴ and we have beheld and do testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.

¹¹ And the testimony is this, "God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son." ¹² He who has the Son has the life; he who has not the Son of God has not the life. ¹³ I have written these words to you so that you may know that you have eternal life, you who believe in the name of the Son of God.

² He bore witness of the Word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, even of all the things that he saw.

⁹ I, John, who am your brother and who share with you in the woes and kingdom and stedfastness of Jesus, found myself in the island called Patmos, for the sake of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.

¹⁰ And I fell down at his feet to worship him, and he said to me. "See that you do it not. I am a fellow slave of yours and of your brothers who hold the testimony of Jesus; for the testimony of Jesus is the vital breath of prophecy."