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1 Corinthians 2 Amplified Bible (AMP)
2 As for myself, brethren, when I came to you, I did not come proclaiming to you the testimony and evidence or [a]mystery and secret of God [concerning what He has done through Christ for the salvation of men] in lofty words of eloquence or human philosophy and wisdom;
2 For I resolved to know nothing (to be acquainted with nothing, to make a display of the knowledge of nothing, and to be conscious of nothing) among you except Jesus Christ (the Messiah) and Him crucified. // Whoever calls on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ will be saved //
3 And I was in (passed into a state of) weakness and fear (dread) and great trembling [[c]after I had come] among you.
4 And my language and my message were not set forth in persuasive (enticing and plausible) words of wisdom, but they were in demonstration of the [Holy] Spirit and power [[d]a proof by the Spirit and power of God, operating on me and stirring in the minds of my hearers the most holy emotions and thus persuading them],
5 So that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men (human philosophy), but in the power of God.
a. 1 Corinthians 2:1 Many ancient manuscripts so read.
b. 1 Corinthians 2:3 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies in the New Testament.
c. 1 Corinthians 2:3 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies in the New Testament.
d. 1 Corinthians 2:4 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.
2 As for myself, brethren, when I came to you, I did not come proclaiming to you the testimony and evidence or [a]mystery and secret of God [concerning what He has done through Christ for the salvation of men] in lofty words of eloquence or human philosophy and wisdom;
2 For I resolved to know nothing (to be acquainted with nothing, to make a display of the knowledge of nothing, and to be conscious of nothing) among you except Jesus Christ (the Messiah) and Him crucified. // Whoever calls on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ will be saved //
3 And I was in (passed into a state of) weakness and fear (dread) and great trembling [[c]after I had come] among you.
4 And my language and my message were not set forth in persuasive (enticing and plausible) words of wisdom, but they were in demonstration of the [Holy] Spirit and power [[d]a proof by the Spirit and power of God, operating on me and stirring in the minds of my hearers the most holy emotions and thus persuading them],
5 So that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men (human philosophy), but in the power of God.
a. 1 Corinthians 2:1 Many ancient manuscripts so read.
b. 1 Corinthians 2:3 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies in the New Testament.
c. 1 Corinthians 2:3 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies in the New Testament.
d. 1 Corinthians 2:4 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.