1 Corinthians 2:6 Cross References - MNT

⁶ Notwithstanding, among those who are mature I do teach philosophy; though not the philosophy of the present age, nor of its rulers who are coming to nought.

⁴⁸ "You then must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect."

²² "And the seed sown among thorns is he who hears the word, but the anxieties of the age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

²¹ "If you want to be perfect," said Jesus, "go, sell your property, give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me."

⁸ "And the master praised the unjust steward because he had acted shrewdly; for the sons of this world are in relation to their own generation wiser than the sons of the light.

²⁵ "who saidest through the Holy Spirit, by the lips of thy servant David, our forefather. "Why did the Gentiles rage, And the peoples form futile plans? ²⁶ "The kings of the earth set themselves in array, And the rulers were gathered together Against the Lord and against his Christ. ²⁷ "In this very city they did gather together against thy holy Servant, Jesus whom thou hast anointed—Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and also the tribes of Israel— ²⁸ "to do all that thy power and thy will had predetermined should be done.

¹⁸ For the message of the Cross is indeed for those on their way to destruction, foolishness; but for us who are on our way to salvation it is the power of God. ¹⁹ For thus it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the philosophers, And the prudence of the prudent will I confound. ²⁰ Sage, rabbi, skeptic of this present age—where are they all? Has not God made foolish the philosophy of the world?

²⁸ The world's base things has God chosen, and the things that are not, to bring to naught the things that are;

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

⁸ None of the rulers of the present age understands it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory.

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

²⁰ Brothers, do not become children in understanding; be babes in malice, but in understanding become mature men.

¹² For this is my proud boast, the testimony of my conscience, that it was in holiness and with pure motives before God, not in worldly wisdom, but in the grace of God, that I have conducted myself in the world, and above all in my relations with you.

⁴ Among them the god of this age has blinded the understanding of the unbelieving so that the sunshine of the gospel of God, should not dawn upon them.

¹¹ Finally, brothers, farewell. Aim at perfection, take courage, be of one mind, live in peace; so shall the God of love and peace be with you.

² in which you passed your lives after the way of this world, under the sway of the Prince of the Powers of the Air, the spirit who is now working among the sons of disobedience.

¹¹ It is he who made some men apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, ¹² in order to equip the saints for the work of serving, for the building up of the Body of Christ— ¹³ till we all come in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to the maturity of manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ.

¹² I do not say that I have already won, or am already perfect, but I am passing on to lay hold on the prize for which also Christ has laid hold of me. ¹³ Brothers, I do not regard myself to have yet laid hold of it; but this one thing I do, forgetting what is behind me, but straining every nerve toward that which lies ahead, ¹⁴ I am ever pressing on toward the goal, for the prize of God's heavenward call in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ Let us all then, who are mature Christians, strive for this! God will make this clear to any of you who are striving for other goals;

¹² Epaphras, one of yourselves, salutes you, a slave of Christ who is always agonizing for you in his prayers, that you may stand firm, mature, and fully assured in all the will of God.

¹⁴ But solid food is for adults, that is, for those who by constant practise have their faculties trained to discriminate between good and evil.

² For in many respects we often stumble. If any man never stumbles in speech, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body as well.

¹⁵ Such wisdom is not that which is descending from on high, but is earthly, sensual, demonlike.

¹⁰ But the God of all grace, who has called us by Christ Jesus to share his eternal glory, will, after you have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.