1 Corinthians 1:5
For through union with him you were enriched in every way — in your power to preach, and in your knowledge of the Truth;
Twentieth Century New Testament
In The King James Version
That in every thing ye are enriched by him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge;
In Context
4I always thank God about you for the blessing bestowed upon you in Christ Jesus.
6and so became yourselves a confirmation of my testimony to the Christ.
Cross References
Acts 2:4and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with strange ‘tongues’ as the Spirit prompted their utterances.
Romans 15:4Whatever was written in the Scriptures in days gone by was written for our instruction, so that, through patient endurance, and through the encouragement drawn from the Scriptures, we might hold fast to our hope.
1 Corinthians 4:7For who makes any one of you superior to others? And what have you that was not given you? But if you received it as a gift, why do you boast as if you had not?
1 Corinthians 12:8To one is given the power to speak with wisdom through the Spirit; to another the power to speak with knowledge, due to the same Spirit;
1 Corinthians 13:2Even though I have the gift of preaching, and fathom all hidden truths and all the depths of knowledge; even though I have such faith as might move mountains, yet have not Love, I am nothing!
1 Corinthians 14:5Now I want you all to speak in ‘tongues,’ but much more I wish that you should preach. A Preacher is of more account than he who speaks in ‘tongues,’ unless he interprets his words, so that the faith of the Church may be built up.
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 1:2-10
< Corinth was a principal city of Greece, in that particular division of it which was called Achaia. It was situated on the isthmus (or neck of land) that joined Peloponnesus to the rest of Greece, on the southern side, and had two ports adjoining, one at the bottom of the Corinthian Gulf, called Lechæum, not far from the city, whence they traded to Italy and the west, the other at the bottom of the Sinus Saronicus, called Cenchrea, at a more remote distance, whence they traded to Asia. From this situation, it is… Read the whole commentary →