1 Corinthians 2:4

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1 Corinthians 2:2–6 · Berean Standard Bible

2 For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.

3 I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling.

4 My message and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power,

5 so that your faith would not rest on men’s wisdom, but on God’s power.

6 Among the mature, however, we speak a message of wisdom—but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.

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Acts 20:27

For I did not shrink back from declaring to you the whole will of God.

1 Corinthians 2:1

When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with eloquence or wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.

1 Corinthians 2:13

And this is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom, but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.

1 Corinthians 1:17

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with words of wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.

Judges 14:15

So on the fourth day they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband to explain the riddle to us, or we will burn you and your father’s household to death. Did you invite us here to rob us?”

Judges 16:5

The lords of the Philistines went to her and said, “Entice him and find out the source of his great strength and how we can overpower him to tie him up and subdue him. Then each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver.”

2 Samuel 14:17

And now your servant says, ‘May the word of my lord the king bring me rest, for my lord the king is able to discern good and evil, just like the angel of God. May the LORD your God be with you.’”

2 Samuel 14:18

Then the king said to the woman, “I am going to ask you something; do not conceal it from me!” “Let my lord the king speak,” she replied.

2 Samuel 14:19

So the king asked, “Is the hand of Joab behind all this?” The woman answered, “As surely as you live, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right or to the left from anything that my lord the king says. Yes, your servant Joab is the one who gave me orders; he told your maidservant exactly what to say.

2 Samuel 14:20

Joab your servant has done this to bring about this change of affairs, but my lord has wisdom like the wisdom of the angel of God, to know everything that happens in the land.”

2 Samuel 15:2

He would get up early and stand beside the road leading to the city gate. Whenever anyone had a grievance to bring before the king for a decision, Absalom would call out and ask, “What city are you from?” And if he replied, “Your servant is from one of the tribes of Israel,”

2 Samuel 15:3

Absalom would say, “Look, your claims are good and right, but the king has no deputy to hear you.”

2 Samuel 15:4

And he would add, “If only someone would appoint me judge in the land, then everyone with a grievance or dispute could come to me, and I would give him justice.”

2 Samuel 15:5

Also, when anyone approached to bow down to him, Absalom would reach out his hand, take hold of him, and kiss him.

2 Samuel 15:6

Absalom did this to all the Israelites who came to the king for justice. In this way he stole the hearts of the men of Israel.

1 Kings 22:13

Then the messenger who had gone to call Micaiah instructed him, “Behold now, with one accord the words of the prophets are favorable to the king. So please let your words be like theirs, and speak favorably.”

1 Kings 22:14

But Micaiah said, “As surely as the LORD lives, I will speak whatever the LORD tells me.”

2 Chronicles 18:19

And the LORD said, ‘Who will entice Ahab king of Israel to march up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?’ And one suggested this, and another that.

2 Chronicles 18:20

Then a spirit came forward, stood before the LORD, and said, ‘I will entice him.’ ‘By what means?’ asked the LORD.

2 Chronicles 18:21

And he replied, ‘I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouths of all his prophets.’ ‘You will surely entice him and prevail,’ said the LORD. ‘Go and do it.’

Proverbs 7:21

With her great persuasion she entices him; with her flattering lips she lures him.

Proverbs 20:19

He who reveals secrets is a constant gossip; avoid the one who babbles with his lips.

Jeremiah 20:10

For I have heard the whispering of many: “Terror is on every side! Report him; let us report him!” All my trusted friends watch for my fall: “Perhaps he will be deceived so that we may prevail against him and take our vengeance upon him.”

Ezekiel 13:6

They see false visions and speak lying divinations. They claim, ‘Thus declares the LORD,’ when the LORD did not send them; yet they wait for the fulfillment of their message.

Ezekiel 13:10

Because they have led My people astray, saying, ‘Peace,’ when there is no peace, and whitewashing any flimsy wall that is built,

Ezekiel 13:11

tell those whitewashing the wall that it will fall. Rain will come in torrents, I will send hailstones plunging down, and a windstorm will burst forth.

Romans 16:18

For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.

Colossians 2:4

I say this so that no one will deceive you by smooth rhetoric.

2 Peter 1:16

For we did not follow cleverly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of His majesty.

2 Peter 2:18

With lofty but empty words, they appeal to the sensual passions of the flesh and entice those who are just escaping from others who live in error.

Acts 26:28

Then Agrippa said to Paul, “Can you persuade me in such a short time to become a Christian?”

Galatians 1:10

Am I now seeking the approval of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

1 Corinthians 4:20

For the kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power.

John 16:8

And when He comes, He will convict the world in regard to sin and righteousness and judgment:

John 16:9

in regard to sin, because they do not believe in Me;

John 16:10

in regard to righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will no longer see Me;

John 16:11

and in regard to judgment, because the prince of this world has been condemned.

John 16:12

I still have much to tell you, but you cannot yet bear to hear it.

John 16:13

However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come.

John 16:14

He will glorify Me by taking from what is Mine and disclosing it to you.

John 16:15

Everything that belongs to the Father is Mine. That is why I said that the Spirit will take from what is Mine and disclose it to you.

Romans 15:19

by the power of signs and wonders, and by the power of the Spirit of God. So from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum, I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ.

1 Thessalonians 1:5

because our gospel came to you not only in word, but also in power, in the Holy Spirit, and with great conviction—just as you know we lived among you for your sake.

1 Peter 1:12

It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves, but you, when they foretold the things now announced by those who preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. Even angels long to look into these things.