Talált 20764 Eredmények: Or

• When God shewed us his wisdom, the world, with all its wisdom, could not find its way to God;✻ and now God would use a foolish thing, our preaching, to save those who will believe in it. (1 Corinthians 1, 21)

• Here are the Jews asking for signs and wonders, here are the Greeks intent on their philosophy; (1 Corinthians 1, 22)

• Consider, brethren, the circumstances of your own calling; not many of you are wise, in the world’s fashion, not many powerful, not many well born. (1 Corinthians 1, 26)

• No, God has chosen what the world holds foolish, so as to abash the wise, God has chosen what the world holds weak, so as to abash the strong.✻ (1 Corinthians 1, 27)

• God has chosen what the world holds base and contemptible, nay, has chosen what is nothing, so as to bring to nothing what is now in being; (1 Corinthians 1, 28)

• no human creature was to have any ground for boasting, in the presence of God. (1 Corinthians 1, 29)

• It is from him that you take your origin, through Christ Jesus, whom God gave us to be all our wisdom, our justification, our sanctification, and our atonement; (1 Corinthians 1, 30)

• so that the scripture might be fulfilled, If anyone boasts, let him make his boast in the Lord.✻ (1 Corinthians 1, 31)

• So it was, brethren, that when I came to you and preached Christ’s message to you, I did so without any high pretensions to eloquence, or to philosophy. (1 Corinthians 2, 1)

• There is, to be sure, a wisdom which we make known among those who are fully grounded; but it is not the wisdom of this world, or of this world’s rulers, whose power is to be abrogated. (1 Corinthians 2, 6)

• What we make known is the wisdom of God, his secret, kept hidden till now; so, before the ages, God had decreed, reserving glory for us. (1 Corinthians 2, 7)

• (None of the rulers of this world could read his secret, or they would not have crucified him to whom all glory belongs.) (1 Corinthians 2, 8)