1 Corinthians 2:6

New American Bible - revised edition

Yet we do speak a wisdom to those who are mature, but not a wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age who are passing away.

Cross References

Job 1:1

In the land of Uz there was a blameless and upright man named Job, who feared God and avoided evil.

Job 12:19

He sends priests away barefoot, leads the powerful astray.

Job 12:21

He pours shame on nobles, the waistband of the strong he loosens.

Psalm 146:4

Who breathing his last, returns to the earth; that day all his planning comes to nothing.

Psalm 33:10

The Lord foils the plan of nations, frustrates the designs of peoples.

Psalm 37:37

Observe the person of integrity and mark the upright; Because there is a future for a man of peace.

Isaiah 40:23

Who brings princes to nought and makes the rulers of the earth as nothing.

Matthew 13:22

The seed sown among thorns is the one who hears the word, but then worldly anxiety and the lure of riches choke the word and it bears no fruit.

Matthew 19:21

Jesus said to him, “If you wish to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to [the] poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”

Matthew 5:48

So be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Luke 16:8

And the master commended that dishonest steward for acting prudently. Application of the Parable. “For the children of this world are more prudent in dealing with their own generation than are the children of light.

1 Corinthians 1:28

and God chose the lowly and despised of the world, those who count for nothing, to reduce to nothing those who are something,

1 Corinthians 12:8

To one is given through the Spirit the expression of wisdom; to another the expression of knowledge according to the same Spirit;

1 Corinthians 14:20

Brothers, stop being childish in your thinking. In respect to evil be like infants, but in your thinking be mature.

1 Corinthians 2:1

When I came to you, brothers, proclaiming the mystery of God, I did not come with sublimity of words or of wisdom.

1 Corinthians 2:13

And we speak about them not with words taught by human wisdom, but with words taught by the Spirit, describing spiritual realities in spiritual terms.

1 Corinthians 2:8

and which none of the rulers of this age knew; for, if they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

1 Corinthians 3:1

Brothers, I could not talk to you as spiritual people, but as fleshly people, as infants in Christ.

2 Corinthians 1:12

For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you, with the simplicity and sincerity of God, [and] not by human wisdom but by the grace of God.

2 Corinthians 13:11

Finally, brothers, rejoice. Mend your ways, encourage one another, agree with one another, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

2 Corinthians 4:3

And even though our gospel is veiled, it is veiled for those who are perishing,

2 Corinthians 4:4

in whose case the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, so that they may not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

Ephesians 2:2

in which you once lived following the age of this world, following the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the disobedient.

Colossians 1:28

It is he whom we proclaim, admonishing everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone perfect in Christ.

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras sends you greetings; he is one of you, a slave of Christ [Jesus], always striving for you in his prayers so that you may be perfect and fully assured in all the will of God.

Hebrews 5:14

But solid food is for the mature, for those whose faculties are trained by practice to discern good and evil.

Hebrews 6:1

Therefore, let us leave behind the basic teaching about Christ and advance to maturity, without laying the foundation all over again: repentance from dead works and faith in God,

James 3:15

Wisdom of this kind does not come down from above but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.

James 3:2

for we all fall short in many respects. If anyone does not fall short in speech, he is a perfect man, able to bridle his whole body also.

1 Peter 5:10

The God of all grace who called you to his eternal glory through Christ [Jesus] will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you after you have suffered a little.