1 Corinthians 2:7

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

We speak of God's hidden and mysterious wisdom that God decided to use for our glory long before the world began.

Cross References

2 Peter 1:3

We have everything we need to live a life that pleases God. It was all given to us by God's own power, when we learnt that he had invited us to share in his wonderful goodness.

Matthew 13:35

So God's promise came true, just as the prophet had said, “I will use stories to speak my message and to explain things that have been hidden since the creation of the world.”

Matthew 11:25

At that moment Jesus said: My Father, Lord of heaven and earth, I am grateful that you hid all this from wise and educated people and showed it to ordinary people.

Psalm 78:2

I will give instruction and explain the mystery of what happened long ago.

1 Peter 5:10

But God shows undeserved kindness to everyone. That's why he appointed Christ Jesus to choose you to share in his eternal glory. You will suffer for a while, but God will make you complete, steady, strong, and firm.

Ephesians 1:4

Before the world was created, God had Christ choose us to live with him and to be his holy and innocent and loving people.

Revelation 13:8

The beast was worshipped by everyone whose name wasn't written before the time of creation in the book of the Lamb who was killed.

1 Peter 1:11

The Spirit of Christ was in them and was telling them how Christ would suffer and would then be given great honour. So they searched to find out exactly who Christ would be and when this would happen.

2 Timothy 1:9

God saved us and chose us to be his holy people. We did nothing to deserve this, but God planned it because he is so kind. Even before time began God planned for Christ Jesus to show kindness to us.

1 Peter 5:1

Church leaders, I am writing to encourage you. I too am a leader, as well as a witness to Christ's suffering, and I will share in his glory when it is shown to us.

Romans 8:29

and he has always known who his chosen ones would be. He had decided to let them become like his own Son, so that his Son would be the first of many children.

Romans 8:30

God then accepted the people he had already decided to choose, and he has shared his glory with them.

Romans 11:25

My friends, I don't want you Gentiles to be too proud of yourselves. So I will explain the mystery of what has happened to the people of Israel. Some of them have become stubborn, and they will stay like that until the complete number of you Gentiles has come in.

1 Corinthians 2:1

Friends, when I came and told you the mystery that God had shared with us, I didn't use big words or try to sound wise.

Ephesians 3:10

Then God would use the church to show the powers and authorities in the spiritual world that he has many different kinds of wisdom.

Hebrews 1:2

But now at last, God sent his Son to bring his message to us. God created the universe by his Son, and everything will some day belong to the Son.

Hebrews 11:3

Because of our faith, we know that the world was made at God's command. We also know that what can be seen was made out of what cannot be seen.