Sacred Scripture

1 Corinthians 2

1. 1 And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not in loftiness of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of Christ.

2. 2 For I judged not myself to know anything among you, but Jesus Christ: and him crucified.

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   • Origen (2)
   • Tertullian (1)
   • Tertullian (1)

3. 3 And I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling.

4. 4 And my speech and my preaching was not in the persuasive words of human wisdom. but in shewing of the Spirit and power:

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   • Gregory Thaumaturgus (1)
   • Origen (2)
   • Origen (2)

5. 5 That your faith might not stand on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God.

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   • Clement of Alexandria (2)

6. 6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among the perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, neither of the princes of this world that come to nought.

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   • Clement of Alexandria (3)
   • Irenaeus (3)
   • Origen (6)
   • Origen (1)
   • Tertullian (1)
   • Tertullian (2)

7. 7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, a wisdom which is hidden, which God ordained before the world, unto our glory:

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   • Lactantius (1)
   • Origen (2)
   • Origen (3)
   • Tertullian (1)

8. 8 Which none of the princes of this world knew. For if they had known it, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory.

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   • Hippolytus (1)
   • Ignatius (3)
   • Tertullian (2)
   • Tertullian (1)

9. 9 But, as it is written: That eye hath not seen, nor ear heard: neither hath it entered into the heart of man, what things God hath prepared for them that love him.

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   • Apocrypha of the New Testament (1)
   • Apostolic Teaching and Constitutions (1)
   • Clement (1)
   • Clement (2)
   • Clement of Alexandria (5)
   • Gregory Thaumaturgus (1)
   • Hippolytus (4)
   • Irenaeus (1)
   • Lactantius (1)
   • Novatian (1)
   • Origen (1)
   • Polycarp (1)
   • Tertullian (1)
   • The Epistles of Clement (3)
   • Theophilus of Antioch (1)

10. 10 But to us God hath revealed them by his Spirit. For the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

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    • Clement of Alexandria (2)
    • Irenaeus (1)
    • Origen (1)
    • Origen (1)

11. 11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, but the spirit of a man that is in him? So the things also that are of God, no man knoweth, but the Spirit of God.

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    • Origen (1)
    • Origen (2)
    • Tertullian (3)
    • The Pastor of Hermas (1)

12. 12 Now, we have received not the spirit of this world, but the Spirit that is of God: that we may know the things that are given us from God.

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    • Novatian (1)
    • Origen (1)

13. 13 Which things also we speak: not in the learned words of human wisdom, but in the doctrine of the Spirit, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

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    • Clement of Alexandria (2)
    • Clement of Rome (1)
    • Hippolytus (2)
    • Origen (1)

14. 14 But the sensual man perceiveth not these things that are of the Spirit of God. For it is foolishness to him: and he cannot understand, because it is spiritually examined.

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    • Irenaeus (4)
    • Origen (1)
    • Origen (1)
    • Tatian (1)
    • Tertullian (2)
    • Tertullian (1)
    • The Decretals (1)

15. 15 But the spiritual man judgeth all things: and he himself is judged of no man.

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    • Irenaeus (2)

16. 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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    • Origen (1)