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I Corinthians Chapter 2

I Corinthians
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I Corinthians

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Paul tells the Corinthians that they are to live chaste and separate from the world. He explains that they have a spiritual body that must be cared for like a temple. The chapter emphasizes purity, holiness, and the purpose of their life as a witness.

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(1) And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.
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Acts 18:1Acts 18:2Acts 18:3Acts 18:4I Corinthians 2:4I Corinthians 2:13I Corinthians 1:17Exodus 4:10Jeremiah 1:6Jeremiah 1:7Romans 16:18II Corinthians 10:10

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Ecclesiastes 7:12I Kings 4:30

(2) For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
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I Corinthians 1:22I Corinthians 1:23I Corinthians 1:24I Corinthians 1:25John 17:3Galatians 3:1Galatians 6:14Philippians 3:8Philippians 3:9Philippians 3:10

(3) And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
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I Corinthians 4:10I Corinthians 4:11I Corinthians 4:12I Corinthians 4:13Acts 17:1Acts 17:6Acts 17:7Acts 17:8Acts 17:9Acts 17:10Acts 17:11Acts 17:12

(4) And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
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Acts 20:27I Corinthians 2:1I Corinthians 2:13I Corinthians 1:17Judges 14:15Judges 16:5II Samuel 14:17II Samuel 14:18II Samuel 14:19II Samuel 14:20II Samuel 15:2II Samuel 15:3

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Ecclesiastes 9:16I Kings 4:30I Corinthians 1:21

(5) That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
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I Corinthians 1:17I Corinthians 3:6Acts 16:14II Corinthians 4:7II Corinthians 6:7

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II Corinthians 1:24I Kings 4:30Romans 1:17James 2:18

(6) Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:
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I Corinthians 14:20Job 1:1Psalms 37:37Matthew 5:48Matthew 19:21II Corinthians 13:11Ephesians 4:11Ephesians 4:12Ephesians 4:13Philippians 3:12Philippians 3:13Philippians 3:14

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John 15:19I Kings 4:30I Corinthians 1:20I Corinthians 1:21I Corinthians 2:7John 1:10

(7) But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:
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Psalms 78:2Isaiah 48:6Isaiah 48:7Matthew 11:25Matthew 13:35Romans 16:25Romans 16:26Ephesians 1:4Ephesians 3:4Ephesians 3:5Ephesians 3:6Ephesians 3:7

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I Kings 4:30I Corinthians 2:6I Corinthians 1:21John 15:19I Kings 4:34Proverbs 4:7

(8) Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
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I Corinthians 2:6I Corinthians 1:26I Corinthians 1:27I Corinthians 1:28Matthew 11:25John 7:48Luke 23:34John 3:19John 3:20John 3:21John 8:19John 9:39

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John 15:19Psalms 68:27I Corinthians 2:6John 1:10John 3:17John 17:14

(9) But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
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Isaiah 64:4John 3:16I Peter 1:12Psalms 31:19Matthew 20:23Matthew 25:34Hebrews 11:16Romans 8:28James 1:12James 2:5I John 4:19

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Luke 6:32Luke 6:42Isaiah 64:4Hosea 3:1I John 2:15I John 4:16

(10) But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
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I Corinthians 14:30Amos 3:7Matthew 11:25Matthew 11:26Matthew 11:27Matthew 13:11Matthew 16:17Luke 2:26Luke 10:21Ephesians 3:3Ephesians 3:5I Peter 1:12

(11) For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
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Proverbs 14:10Proverbs 20:5Proverbs 20:27Jeremiah 17:9I Corinthians 2:10Romans 11:33Romans 11:34

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Matthew 11:27Hosea 7:9I Corinthians 8:2Joshua 22:22

(12) Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
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I Corinthians 2:6Romans 8:1Romans 8:5Romans 8:6II Corinthians 4:4Ephesians 2:2James 4:5I John 4:4I John 4:5I John 5:19Revelation 12:9Romans 8:15

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John 15:19Matthew 10:8John 1:10John 3:17John 17:14I John 2:15

(13) Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
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I Corinthians 2:4I Corinthians 1:17II Peter 1:16I Corinthians 12:1I Corinthians 12:2I Corinthians 12:3I Corinthians 14:2Luke 12:12Acts 2:4I Peter 1:12I Corinthians 2:14I Corinthians 9:11

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I Corinthians 10:4I Corinthians 15:44I Corinthians 15:46I Peter 2:5Ecclesiastes 9:16I Kings 4:30

(14) But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
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I Corinthians 15:44I Corinthians 15:46James 3:15Jude 1:19Matthew 13:11Matthew 13:12Matthew 13:13Matthew 13:14Matthew 13:15Matthew 13:16Matthew 13:17Matthew 16:23

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Matthew 10:40John 13:20

(15) But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
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I Corinthians 3:1I Corinthians 14:37Galatians 6:1Colossians 1:9II Samuel 14:17I Kings 3:9I Kings 3:10I Kings 3:11Psalms 25:14Proverbs 28:5Ecclesiastes 8:5John 7:17

(16) For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
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Job 15:8Job 22:2Job 40:2Isaiah 40:13Isaiah 40:14Jeremiah 23:18Romans 11:34John 15:15John 16:13John 16:14John 16:15John 16:16

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Ezekiel 23:18Romans 12:16

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