1 Corinthians 1:18
For the word of the cross is foolishness indeed to those who are lost; but to those who are saved it is the power of God.
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
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Acts 2:47praising God, and having favor unto all the people. And the Lord was daily adding to them those who were being saved.
Acts 17:18And certain ones of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers interviewed him, and some continued to say, What would this babbler wish to say? and others said, He seems to be the propagator of strange divinities: because he was preaching the gospel of Jesus, and the resurrection.
Romans 1:16For I am not ashamed of the gospel: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
1 Corinthians 1:23but we preach Christ having been crucified, to the Jews indeed a stumbling block, and to the Gentiles foolishness;
1 Corinthians 2:14But the intellectual man receives not the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness unto him; and he is not able to know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
1 Corinthians 15:2by which you are also saved; which word I preached to you, if you hold it fast, otherwise 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 →