1 Corinthians 1 - 3
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Paul, a called b by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and our brother Sosthenes,
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To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those c sanctified in Christ Jesus, d called to be saints together with all those who in every place e call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:
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d Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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I f give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus,
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that in every way g you were enriched in him in all h speech and all knowledge -
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even as i the testimony about Christ was confirmed among you -
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so that you are not lacking in any spiritual gift, as you j wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ,
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k who will sustain you to the end, l guiltless m in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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n God is faithful, by whom you were called into the o fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
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I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no p divisions among you, but that you be united q in the same mind and the same judgment.
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For it has been reported to me by Chloe's people that there is r quarreling among you, my brothers.
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What I mean is that s each one of you says, "I follow Paul," or "I follow t Apollos," or "I follow u Cephas," or "I follow Christ."
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v Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you w baptized in the name of Paul?
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I thank God that I baptized none of you except x Crispus and y Gaius,
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so that no one may say that you were baptized in my name.
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(I did baptize also z the household of Stephanas. Beyond that, I do not know whether I baptized anyone else.)
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For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and a not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.
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For the word of the cross is b folly to c those who are perishing, but to us d who are being saved it is e the power of God.
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For it is written,
f "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart."
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g Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? h Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
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For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.
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For i Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom,
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but we preach Christ j crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles,
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but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ k the power of God and l the wisdom of God.
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For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
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For consider your calling, brothers: m not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth.
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But n God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; o God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong;
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God chose what is low and despised in the world, even p things that are not, to q bring to nothing things that are,
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so r that no human being might boast in the presence of God.
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And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us s wisdom from God, t righteousness and u sanctification and v redemption,
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so that, as it is written, w "Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord."
1 Corinthians 2
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And I, when I came to you, brothers, x did not come proclaiming to you y the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom.
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For I decided to know nothing among you except z Jesus Christ and him crucified.
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And a I was with you b in weakness and in fear and much trembling,
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and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of c the Spirit and of power,
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that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but d in the power of God.
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Yet among e the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not f a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, g who are doomed to pass away.
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But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, h which God decreed before the ages for our glory.
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None of i the rulers of this age understood this, for j if they had, they would not have crucified k the Lord of glory.
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But, as it is written,
l "What no eye has seen, nor ear heard,
nor the heart of man imagined,
what God has m prepared n for those who love him" -
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these things o God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even p the depths of God.
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For who knows a person's thoughts q except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
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Now r we have received not s the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God.
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And we impart this t in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, u interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.
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The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are v folly to him, and w he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
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The x spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one.
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y "For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?" But z we have the mind of Christ.
1 Corinthians 3
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But I, brothers, could not address you as a spiritual people, but as b people of the flesh, as c infants in Christ.
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d I fed you with milk, not solid food, for e you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready,
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for you are still of the flesh. For while there is f jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way?
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For g when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," h are you not being merely human?
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What then is Apollos? What is Paul? i Servants through whom you believed, j as the Lord assigned to each.
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k I planted, l Apollos watered, m but God gave the growth.
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So n neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.
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He who plants and he who waters are one, and each o will receive his wages according to his labor.
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For we are p God's fellow workers. You are God's field, q God's building.
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r According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a s foundation, and t someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it.
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For no one can lay a u foundation other v than that which is laid, w which is Jesus Christ.
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Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw -
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x each one's work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed y by fire, and z the fire will test what sort of work each one has done.
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If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, a he will receive a reward.
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If anyone's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, b but only as through fire.
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c Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?
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If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For d God's temple is holy, and you are that temple.
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e Let no one deceive himself. f If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise.
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For g the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, h "He catches the wise in their craftiness,"
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and again, i "The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile."
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So j let no one boast in men. For k all things are yours,
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whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future - all are yours,
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and l you are Christ's, and m Christ is God's.
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Romans 1:1
Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God.
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2 Corinthians 1:1
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the church of God that is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:
Ephesians 1:1
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints who are in Ephesus, and are faithful in Christ Jesus:
Colossians 1:1
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother.
2 Timothy 1:1
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God according to the promise of the life that is in Christ Jesus.
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1 Corinthians 6:11
And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
1 Corinthians 1:30
And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption.
John 17:19
And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth.
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Romans 1:7
To all those in Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Acts 9:14
And here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on your name.
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1 Corinthians 1:2
To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:
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Romans 1:8
First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed in all the world.
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2 Corinthians 9:11
You will be enriched in every way to be generous in every way, which through us will produce thanksgiving to God.
2 Corinthians 6:10
As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing everything.
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2 Corinthians 8:7
But as you excel in everything - in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in all earnestness, and in our love for you - see that you excel in this act of grace also.
1 Corinthians 12:8
For to one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit.
Romans 15:14
I myself am satisfied about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able to instruct one another.
1 John 2:20
But you have been anointed by the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.
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2 Timothy 1:8
Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but share in suffering for the gospel by the power of God.
2 Thessalonians 1:10
When he comes on that day to be glorified in his saints, and to be marveled at among all who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed.
1 Timothy 2:6
Who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time.
Revelation 1:2
Who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw.
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Romans 8:19
For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God.
Philippians 3:20
But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Hebrews 9:28
So Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.
Luke 17:30
So will it be on the day when the Son of Man is revealed.
2 Peter 3:12
Waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn!
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Philippians 1:6
And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.
1 Thessalonians 3:13
So that he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
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Colossians 1:22
He has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him.
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1 Corinthians 5:5
You are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.
2 Corinthians 1:14
Just as you did partially acknowledge us - that on the day of our Lord Jesus you will boast of us as we will boast of you.
Philippians 2:16
Holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.
Luke 17:24
For as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day.
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1 Corinthians 10:13
No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
Deuteronomy 7:9
Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations.
Isaiah 49:7
Thus says the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel and his Holy One, to one deeply despised, abhorred by the nation, the servant of rulers: "Kings shall see and arise; princes, and they shall prostrate themselves; because of the Lord, who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.
2 Corinthians 1:18
As surely as God is faithful, our word to you has not been Yes and No.
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1 John 1:3
That which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.
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1 Corinthians 11:18
For, in the first place, when you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you. And I believe it in part.
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Philippians 1:27
Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel.
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1 Corinthians 3:3
For you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way?
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1 Corinthians 3:4
For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," are you not being merely human?
Matthew 23:9 - 10
And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven.
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Acts 18:24
Now a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was an eloquent man, competent in the Scriptures.
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John 1:42
He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, "So you are Simon the son of John? You shall be called Cephas" (which means Peter).
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1 Corinthians 12:5
And there are varieties of service, but the same Lord.
2 Corinthians 11:4
For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough.
Ephesians 4:5
One Lord, one faith, one baptism.
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Acts 8:16
For he had not yet fallen on any of them, but they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
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Acts 18:8
Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord, together with his entire household. And many of the Corinthians hearing Paul believed and were baptized.
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Romans 16:23
Gaius, who is host to me and to the whole church, greets you. Erastus, the city treasurer, and our brother Quartus, greet you.
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1 Corinthians 16:15
Now I urge you, brothers - you know that the household of Stephanas were the first converts in Achaia, and that they have devoted themselves to the service of the saints -
1 Corinthians 16:17
I rejoice at the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus, because they have made up for your absence.
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1 Corinthians 2:1
And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not co...
1 Corinthians 2:4
And my speech and my message were not in plausi...
1 Corinthians 2:13
And we impart this in words not taught by human...
2 Corinthians 10:10
For they say, "His letters are weighty and stro...
2 Corinthians 11:6
Even if I am unskilled in speaking, I am not so...
2 Peter 1:16
For we did not follow cleverly devised myths wh...
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1 Corinthians 1:21
For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.
1 Corinthians 1:23
But we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles.
1 Corinthians 1:25
For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
1 Corinthians 2:14
The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
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2 Corinthians 2:15
For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing.
2 Corinthians 4:3
And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled only to those who are perishing.
2 Thessalonians 2:10
And with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.
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1 Corinthians 15:2
And by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you - unless you believed in vain.
Acts 2:47
Praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved.
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Romans 1:16
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
1 Corinthians 1:24
But to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
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Isaiah 29:14
Therefore, behold, I will again do wonderful things with this people, with wonder upon wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the discernment of their discerning men shall be hidden.
Job 5:12 - 13
He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands achieve no success.
Jeremiah 8:9
The wise men shall be put to shame; they shall be dismayed and taken; behold, they have rejected the word of the Lord, so what wisdom is in them?
Matthew 11:25
At that time Jesus declared, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children.
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Isaiah 29:14
Therefore, behold, I will again do wonderful things with this people, with wonder upon wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the discernment of their discerning men shall be hidden.
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Isaiah 19:12
Where then are your wise men? Let them tell you that they might know what the Lord of hosts has purposed against Egypt.
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1 Corinthians 2:6
Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away.
1 Corinthians 3:19
For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, "He catches the wise in their craftiness.
Isaiah 44:25
Who frustrates the signs of liars and makes fools of diviners, who turns wise men back and makes their knowledge foolish.
Romans 1:22
Claiming to be wise, they became fools.
1 Corinthians 1:26
For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth.
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Matthew 12:38
Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered him, saying, "Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you.
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Galatians 5:11
But if I, brothers, still preach circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been removed.
1 Peter 2:8
And "A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense." They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.
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1 Corinthians 1:18
For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
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1 Corinthians 1:30
And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption.
Colossians 2:3
In whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
Luke 11:49
Therefore also the Wisdom of God said, 'I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and persecute.
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1 Corinthians 2:8
None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
John 7:48
Have any of the authorities or the Pharisees believed in him?
1 Corinthians 1:20
Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
Matthew 11:25
At that time Jesus declared, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children.
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James 2:5
Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him?
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Psalms 8:2
Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger.
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Romans 4:17
As it is written, "I have made you the father of many nations" - in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.
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1 Corinthians 2:6
Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away.
Job 34:19
Who shows no partiality to princes, nor regards the rich more than the poor, for they are all the work of his hands?
Job 34:24
He shatters the mighty without investigation and sets others in their place.
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Ephesians 2:9
Not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Judges 7:2
The Lord said to Gideon, "The people with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel boast over me, saying, 'My own hand has saved me.
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1 Corinthians 1:24
But to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
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Jeremiah 23:5 - 6
Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
Jeremiah 33:16
In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell securely. And this is the name by which it will be called: 'The Lord is our righteousness.
2 Corinthians 5:21
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Philippians 3:9
And be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith -
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1 Corinthians 1:2
To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:
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Ephesians 1:7
In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace.
Colossians 1:14
In whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
Romans 3:24
And are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
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2 Corinthians 10:17
"Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord."
Jeremiah 9:23 - 24
Thus says the Lord : "Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches.
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1 Corinthians 2:4
And my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power.
1 Corinthians 2:13
And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.
2 Corinthians 1:12
For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience, that we behaved in the world with simplicity and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God, and supremely so toward you.
1 Corinthians 1:17
For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.
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Romans 16:25
Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery that was kept secret for long ages
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Galatians 6:14
But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
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Acts 18:1
After this Paul left Athens and went to Corinth.
Acts 18:6
And when they opposed and reviled him, he shook out his garments and said to them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.
Acts 18:12
But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews made a united attack on Paul and brought him before the tribunal.
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2 Corinthians 11:30
If I must boast, I will boast of the things tha...
2 Corinthians 12:5
On behalf of this man I will boast, but on my o...
2 Corinthians 12:9
But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for ...
2 Corinthians 13:4
For he was crucified in weakness, but lives by ...
2 Corinthians 13:9
For we are glad when we are weak and you are st...
Galatians 4:13
You know it was because of a bodily ailment tha...
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1 Corinthians 4:20
For the kingdom of God does not consist in talk but in power.
Romans 15:13
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.
Romans 15:19
By the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God - so that from Jerusalem and all the way around to Illyricum I have fulfilled the ministry of the gospel of Christ.
1 Thessalonians 1:5
Because our gospel came to you not only in word, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction. You know what kind of men we proved to be among you for your sake.
2 Peter 1:16
For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
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2 Corinthians 4:7
But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us.
2 Corinthians 6:7
By truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left.
Zechariah 4:6
Then he said to me, "This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of hosts.
2 Corinthians 10:4
For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds.
2 Corinthians 12:9
But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
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Philippians 3:15
Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you.
1 Corinthians 3:1
But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.
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James 3:15
This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.
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1 Corinthians 1:28
God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are.
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Romans 16:25 - 26
Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery that was kept secret for long ages
Ephesians 3:5
Which was not made known to the sons of men in other generations as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit.
Ephesians 3:9
And to bring to light for everyone what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in God who created all things.
Colossians 1:26
The mystery hidden for ages and generations but now revealed to his saints.
2 Timothy 1:9
Who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began.
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Acts 13:27
For those who live in Jerusalem and their rulers, because they did not recognize him nor understand the utterances of the prophets, which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.
Luke 24:20
And how our chief priests and rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him.
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Acts 3:17
And now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did also your rulers.
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James 2:1
My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory.
Psalms 24:7 - 10
Lift up your heads, O gates! And be lifted up, O ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in.
Acts 7:2
And Stephen said: "Brothers and fathers, hear me. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran.
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Isaiah 64:4
From of old no one has heard or perceived by the ear, no eye has seen a God besides you, who acts for those who wait for him.
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Matthew 25:34
Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
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James 1:12
Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.
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Matthew 16:17
And Jesus answered him, "Blessed are you, Simon...
Galatians 1:12
For I did not receive it from any man, nor was ...
Galatians 1:16
Was pleased to reveal his Son to me, in order t...
Ephesians 3:3
How the mystery was made known to me by revelat...
Ephesians 3:5
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John 14:26
But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Fathe...
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Revelation 2:24
But to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who have not learned what some call the deep things of Satan, to you I say, I do not lay on you any other burden.
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Proverbs 20:27
The spirit of man is the lamp of the Lord, searching all his innermost parts.
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Romans 8:15
For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, "Abba! Father!
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1 John 4:4
Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
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1 Corinthians 2:1
And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom.
1 Corinthians 2:4
And my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power.
1 Corinthians 1:17
For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.
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2 Corinthians 10:12
Not that we dare to classify or compare ourselves with some of those who are commending themselves. But when they measure themselves by one another and compare themselves with one another, they are without understanding.
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1 Corinthians 1:18
For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
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Romans 8:7
For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot.
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1 Corinthians 3:1
But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.
1 Corinthians 14:37
If anyone thinks that he is a prophet, or spiritual, he should acknowledge that the things I am writing to you are a command of the Lord.
Galatians 6:1
Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.
Proverbs 28:5
Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the Lord understand it completely.
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Isaiah 40:13
Who has measured the Spirit of the Lord, or what man shows him his counsel?
Romans 11:34
"For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?"
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John 15:15
No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
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Isaiah 40:13
Who has measured the Spirit of the Lord, or what man shows him his counsel?
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1 Corinthians 2:15
The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one.
Romans 7:14
For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin.
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1 Corinthians 2:14
The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
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Hebrews 5:13
For everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child.
1 Corinthians 2:6
Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away.
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Hebrews 5:12 - 13
For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food.
1 Peter 2:2
Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation -
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John 16:12
I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.
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Galatians 5:19 - 20
Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality.
1 Corinthians 1:11
For it has been reported to me by Chloe's people that there is quarreling among you, my brothers.
1 Corinthians 11:18
For, in the first place, when you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you. And I believe it in part.
Romans 13:13
Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy.
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1 Corinthians 1:12
What I mean is that each one of you says, "I follow Paul," or "I follow Apollos," or "I follow Cephas," or "I follow Christ.
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1 Corinthians 3:3
For you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way?
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2 Corinthians 6:4
But as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: by great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities.
Ephesians 3:7
Of this gospel I was made a minister according to the gift of God's grace, which was given me by the working of his power.
Colossians 1:25
Of which I became a minister according to the stewardship from God that was given to me for you, to make the word of God fully known.
2 Corinthians 3:3
And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
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Romans 12:6
Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith.
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1 Corinthians 4:15
For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
1 Corinthians 9:1
Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are not you my workmanship in the Lord?
1 Corinthians 15:1
Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand.
Acts 18:4 - 11
And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and tried to persuade Jews and Greeks.
2 Corinthians 10:14 - 15
For we are not overextending ourselves, as though we did not reach you. For we were the first to come all the way to you with the gospel of Christ.
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Acts 18:27
And when he wished to cross to Achaia, the brothers encouraged him and wrote to the disciples to welcome him. When he arrived, he greatly helped those who through grace had believed.
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1 Corinthians 15:10
But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.
Colossians 1:18
And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.
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2 Corinthians 12:11
I have been a fool! You forced me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I was not at all inferior to these super-apostles, even though I am nothing.
Galatians 6:3
For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
Galatians 2:6
And from those who seemed to be influential (what they were makes no difference to me; God shows no partiality) - those, I say, who seemed influential added nothing to me.
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1 Corinthians 3:14
If the work that anyone has built on the founda...
1 Corinthians 15:58
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, i...
2 John 1:8
Watch yourselves, so that you may not lose what...
1 Corinthians 4:5
Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the ...
Galatians 6:4 - 5
But let each one test his own work, and then hi...
Matthew 16:27
For the Son of Man is going to come with his an...
Romans 2:6
He will render to each one according to his works:
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Mark 16:20
And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by accompanying signs.]]
2 Corinthians 6:1
Working together with him, then, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain.
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Ephesians 2:20 - 22
Built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone.
Colossians 2:7
Rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.
1 Corinthians 3:16
Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?
Psalms 127:1
Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.
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2 Peter 3:15
And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him.
Romans 12:3
For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.
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1 Corinthians 3:11 - 12
For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
Romans 15:20
And thus I make it my ambition to preach the gospel, not where Christ has already been named, lest I build on someone else's foundation.
Revelation 21:14
And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
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1 Corinthians 4:15
For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
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Isaiah 28:16
Therefore thus says the Lord God, "Behold, I am the one who has laid as a foundation in Zion, a stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, of a sure foundation: 'Whoever believes will not be in haste.
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2 Corinthians 11:4
For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough.
Galatians 1:6 - 7
I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel -
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Ephesians 2:20
Built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone.
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1 Corinthians 4:5
Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive his commendation from God.
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1 Corinthians 3:15
If anyone's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.
2 Thessalonians 1:8
In flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
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1 Peter 1:7
So that the tested genuineness of your faith - more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire - may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
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1 Corinthians 3:8
He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor.
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Psalms 66:12
You let men ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water; yet you have brought us out to a place of abundance.
Isaiah 43:2
When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you.
Jude 1:23
Save others by snatching them out of the fire; to others show mercy with fear, hating even the garment stained by the flesh.
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1 Corinthians 6:19
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own.
2 Corinthians 6:16
What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, "I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Ephesians 2:21
In whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord.
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2 Corinthians 7:1
Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.
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Isaiah 5:21
Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and shrewd in their own sight!
Galatians 6:3
For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
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1 Corinthians 8:2
If anyone imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know.
Jeremiah 8:8 - 9
How can you say, 'We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us'? But behold, the lying pen of the scribes has made it into a lie.
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1 Corinthians 1:20
Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
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Job 5:13
He catches the wise in their own craftiness, and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end.
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Job 5:13
He catches the wise in their own craftiness, and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end.
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Psalms 94:11
The Lord - knows the thoughts of man, that they are but a breath.
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Psalms 94:11
The Lord - knows the thoughts of man, that they are but a breath.
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1 Corinthians 3:4 - 6
For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," are you not being merely human?
1 Corinthians 1:12
What I mean is that each one of you says, "I follow Paul," or "I follow Apollos," or "I follow Cephas," or "I follow Christ.
1 Corinthians 4:6
I have applied all these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, brothers, that you may learn by us not to go beyond what is written, that none of you may be puffed up in favor of one against another.
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Romans 8:28
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
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2 Corinthians 10:7
Look at what is before your eyes. If anyone is confident that he is Christ's, let him remind himself that just as he is Christ's, so also are we.
Galatians 3:29
And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise.
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1 Corinthians 11:3
But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.
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