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1 Corinthians 1:21 KJV
1 Corinthians · chapter 1 · verse 21
For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.1 Corinthians 1:21 · King James Version
1 Corinthians 1:21 in context
19For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
20Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
21For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
22For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
23But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;
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Key words (Strong's)
- preachingkērygmathat which is proclaimed by a herald or public crier, a proclamation by herald, in the NT…G2782 →
- pleasedeudokeōit seems good to one, is one's good pleasure, think it good, choose, determine, decide…G2106 →
- believepisteuōto think to be true, to be persuaded of, to credit, place confidence in, of the thing…G4100 →
- wisdomsophiawisdom, broad and full of intelligence used of the knowledge of very diverse matters, the…G4678 →
- afterepeidēwhen now, since now, of time when now, after that, of cause since, seeing that, forasmuch…G1894 →
- worldkosmosan apt and harmonious arrangement or constitution, order, government, ornament…G2889 →
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We have here, I. The manner in which Paul preached the gospel, and the cross of Christ: Not with the wisdom of words (Co1 1:17), the enticing words of man's wisdom (Co1 2:4), the flourish of oratory, or the accuracies of philosophical language, upon which the Greeks so much prided themselves, and which seem to have…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 17-31