1 Corinthians 1:18
For the preaching of the cross is to those who are perishing, foolishness, but to us who are being saved, it is the power of God.
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Acts 2:47praising God, and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily those who were in the way of salvation.
Acts 17:18And some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also conversed with him. And some said, What doth this babbler mean to say? and others, He seemeth to be a setter forth of foreign gods; because he brought the glad tidings of Jesus and the resurrection.
Romans 1:16For I am not ashamed of the gospel; for to every believer, to the Jew first and also to the Greek, it is the power of God unto salvation.
1 Corinthians 1:23but we preach Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling-block, and to gentiles foolishness,
1 Corinthians 2:14But the unspiritual man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot know them; because they are spiritually discerned.
1 Corinthians 15:2by which also ye are saved, if ye hold fast the same word which I preached to you, unless ye 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 →