1 Corinthians 2:1

James Moffatt - New Testament

Thus when I came to you, my brothers, I did not come to proclaim to you God's secret purpose with any elaborate words or wisdom.

Cross References

1 Corinthians 1:17

Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel. And to preach it with no fine rhetoric, lest the cross of Christ should lose its power!

1 Corinthians 2:13

And this is what we discuss, using language taught by no human wisdom but by the Spirit. We interpret what is spiritual in spiritual language.

1 Corinthians 2:4

what I said, what I preached, did not rest on the plausible arguments of 'wisdom' but on the proof supplied by the Spirit and its power,

2 Timothy 1:8

So do not be ashamed to testify to our Lord, and do not be ashamed of a prisoner of the Lord like me; join me in bearing suffering for the gospel by the power of the God

Romans 16:18

Such creatures are no servants of Christ our Lord, they are slaves of their own base desires; with their plausible and pious talk they beguile the hearts of unsuspecting people. But surely not of you!

2 Corinthians 11:6

I am no speaker, perhaps, but knowledge I do possess; I never failed to make myself intelligible to you.

Revelation 1:2

who now testifies to what is God's word and Jesus Christ's testimony — to what he saw.

1 John 4:14

and we have seen, we can testify, that the Father has sent the Son as the Saviour of the world.

2 Thessalonians 1:10

when he comes to be glorified in his saints and marvelled at in all believers on that day (for our testimony has found confirmation in your lives).

1 Corinthians 1:6

all of which verifies the testimony we bore to Christ when we were with you.

Acts 22:18

and saw Him saying to me, 'Make haste, leave Jerusalem quickly, for they will not accept your evidence about me.'

Acts 20:21

bearing my testimony, both to Jews and Greeks, of repentance before God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

Revelation 19:10

Then I fell before his feet to worship him; but he said to me, "No, not that! I am but a servant like yourself and your brothers, who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God" (for the testimony borne by Jesus is the breath of all prophecy).

Revelation 1:9

I John, your brother and your companion in the distress and realm and patient endurance which Jesus brings, found myself in the island called Patmos, for adhering to God's word and the testimony of Jesus.

1 Timothy 1:11

as laid down by that glorious gospel of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted.

2 Corinthians 10:10

My opponent says, 'Paul's letters are weighty and telling, but his personality is weak and his delivery is beneath contempt.'

Romans 16:25

[Now to Him who can strengthen you by my gospel, by the preaching of Jesus Christ, by revealing the secret purpose which after the silence of long ages

1 Corinthians 2:7

it is the mysterious Wisdom of God that we discuss, that hidden wisdom which God decreed from all eternity for our glory.