1 Corinthians 1:23

James Moffatt - New Testament

but our message is Christ the crucified — a stumbling-block to the Jews, 'sheer folly' to the Gentiles,

Cross References

1 Corinthians 2:14

The unspiritual man rejects these truths of the Spirit of God; to him they are 'sheer folly,' he cannot understand them. And the reason is, that they must be read with the spiritual eye.

1 Peter 2:8

a stone over which men stumble and a rock of offence; they stumble over it in their disobedience to God's word. Such is their appointed doom.

1 Corinthians 2:2

I determined among you to be ignorant of everything except Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ the crucified.

Galatians 5:11

I am 'still preaching circumcision myself,' am I? Then, brothers, why am I still being persecuted? And so the stumbling-block of the cross has lost its force, forsooth!

1 Corinthians 1:18

Those who are doomed to perish find the story of the cross 'sheer folly,' but it means the power of God for those whom he saves.

Luke 2:34

but Symeon blessed them, and to his mother Mary he said, "This child is destined for the downfall as well as for the rise of many a one in Israel; destined to be a Sign for man's attack —

Galatians 6:14

But no boasting for me, none except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me and I crucified to the world.

Matthew 13:57

So they were repelled by him. But Jesus said to them, "A prophet never goes without honour except in his native place and in his home."

Matthew 11:6

And blessed is he who is repelled by nothing in me!"

Ephesians 3:8

less than the least of all saints as I am, this grace was vouchsafed me, that I should bring the Gentiles the gospel of the fathomless wealth of Christ

Galatians 3:1

O senseless Galatians, who has bewitched you — you who had Jesus Christ the crucified placarded before your very eyes?

2 Corinthians 4:5

(It is Christ Jesus as Lord, not myself, that I proclaim; I am simply a servant of yours for Jesus' sake.)

1 Corinthians 1:28

God has chosen what is mean and despised in the world — things which are not, to put down things that are;

1 Corinthians 1:21

For when the world with all its wisdom failed to know God in his wisdom, God resolved to save believers by the 'sheer folly' of the Christian message.

1 Corinthians 4:10

We, for Christ's sake, are 'fools'; you in Christ are sensible. We are weak, you are strong; you are honoured, we are in disrepute.

Hebrews 12:2

our eyes fixed upon Jesus as the pioneer and the perfection of faith — upon Jesus who, in order to reach his own appointed joy, steadily endured the cross, thinking nothing of its shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God.