1 Corinthians 1:18
For the preaching of the cross is to those who perish, foolishness; but to us who are saved, it is the power of God.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
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Acts 2:47praising God, and being in favor with all the people. And the Lord added the saved daily to the Church.
Acts 17:18And some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers disputed with him; and some said: What can this babbler possibly wish to say? Others said: He seems to be a proclaimer of strange demons: for he preached to them Jesus and the Resurrection.
Romans 1:16For I am not ashamed of the Gospel: for it is the power of God in order to salvation, to every one that believes, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
1 Corinthians 1:23but we preach Christ crucified; to the Jews, indeed, a stumbling-block, and to the Greeks, foolishness:
1 Corinthians 2:14But an animal man receives not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he can not know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
1 Corinthians 15:2by which also you are saved, if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain.
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 1:18-31
The Efficacy of the Gospel; The Character of the Gospel. ( a. d. 57.) 17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect. 18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. 19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. 20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the… Read the whole commentary →