1 Corinthians 1:23

KJV1611 – Modern English

But we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block, and to the Greeks foolishness;

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  • 1 Cor 2:14 : 14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
  • 1 Pet 2:8 : 8 And a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense. They stumble, being disobedient to the word, to which they also were appointed.
  • 1 Cor 2:2 : 2 For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.
  • Gal 5:11 : 11 And I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why do I still suffer persecution? Then the offense of the cross has ceased.
  • Luke 2:34 : 34 And Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary his mother, Behold, this child is destined for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which will be spoken against
  • Isa 8:14-15 : 14 And He shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offense to both the houses of Israel, for a trap and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 15 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.
  • Gal 3:1 : 1 O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ has been clearly set forth, crucified among you?
  • 1 Cor 1:18 : 18 For the preaching of the cross is to those who perish foolishness; but to us who are saved it is the power of God.
  • 1 Cor 1:28 : 28 And base things of the world, and things which are despised, God has chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are:
  • 2 Cor 4:5 : 5 For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake.
  • Gal 6:14 : 14 But God forbid that I should boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.
  • Eph 3:8 : 8 To me, who am less than the least of all saints, this grace was given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;
  • Matt 11:6 : 6 And blessed is he who does not fall away because of me.
  • Matt 13:57 : 57 And they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, A prophet is not without honor except in his own town and in his own home.
  • Acts 10:39-43 : 39 And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem; whom they killed by hanging on a tree: 40 Him God raised up on the third day, and showed him openly; 41 Not to all the people, but to witnesses chosen before by God, even to us who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. 42 And he commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify that it is he who was ordained by God to be the Judge of the living and the dead. 43 To him all the prophets witness that through his name whoever believes in him shall receive forgiveness of sins.
  • Rom 9:32-33 : 32 Why? Because they did not seek it by faith, but as it were, by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumbling stone; 33 As it is written, Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and rock of offense; and whoever believes on Him shall not be put to shame.
  • Luke 24:46-47 : 46 And said to them, Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day: 47 And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
  • John 6:53-66 : 53 Then Jesus said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Except you eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 54 Whoever eats my flesh, and drinks my blood, has eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. 55 For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. 56 He who eats my flesh, and drinks my blood, dwells in me, and I in him. 57 As the living Father has sent me, and I live by the Father: so he who eats me, even he shall live by me. 58 This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers ate manna, and are dead: he who eats of this bread shall live forever. 59 These things he said in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum. 60 Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is a hard saying; who can understand it? 61 When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said to them, Does this offend you? 62 What then if you shall see the Son of Man ascend up where he was before? 63 It is the spirit that gives life; the flesh profits nothing: the words that I speak to you, they are spirit, and they are life. 64 But there are some of you who do not believe. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who should betray him. 65 And he said, Therefore I said to you, that no man can come to me, except it were given to him by my Father. 66 From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.
  • Acts 7:32-35 : 32 Saying, I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled and did not dare to look. 33 Then the Lord said to him, Take off your sandals from your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground. 34 I have surely seen the oppression of my people who are in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and have come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send you to Egypt. 35 This Moses, whom they refused, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge? the same God sent to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

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  • 1 Cor 1:17-22
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    17For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with the wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect.

    18For the preaching of the cross is to those who perish foolishness; but to us who are saved it is the power of God.

    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 debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

    21For since in the wisdom of God the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of preaching to save those who believe.

    22For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:

  • 1 Cor 1:24-30
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    24But to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.

    25Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

    26For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:

    27But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;

    28And base things of the world, and things which are despised, God has chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are:

    29That no flesh should glory in his presence.

    30But of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God—and righteousness and sanctification and redemption—

  • 1 Cor 2:1-8
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    1And I, brothers, when I came to you, did not come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, declaring to you the testimony of God.

    2For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.

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

    4And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

    5that your faith should not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.

    6However, we speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing.

    7But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory,

    8which none of the rulers of this world knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

  • Gal 3:1
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    1O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ has been clearly set forth, crucified among you?

  • 1 Cor 3:18-19
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    18Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

    19For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He catches the wise in their own craftiness.

  • Gal 6:14
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    14But God forbid that I should boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.

  • 1 Cor 4:10
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    10We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are honored, but we are despised.

  • 2 Cor 4:3-5
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    3But if our gospel is hidden, it is hidden to those who are lost:

    4In whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of those who do not believe, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

    5For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake.

  • 1 Cor 1:12-13
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    12Now I say this, that every one of you says, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.

    13Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?

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    8And a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense. They stumble, being disobedient to the word, to which they also were appointed.

  • Rom 1:16
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    16For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God to salvation to everyone who believes; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

  • Rom 9:32-33
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    32Why? Because they did not seek it by faith, but as it were, by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumbling stone;

    33As it is written, Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and rock of offense; and whoever believes on Him shall not be put to shame.

  • Rom 1:22-23
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    22Professing to be wise, they became fools,

    23And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man, and to birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things.

  • Rom 3:9
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    9What then? Are we better than they? Not at all: for we have already charged both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;

  • Phil 1:15-16
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    15Some indeed preach Christ even from envy and strife, and some also from goodwill:

    16The former preach Christ from selfish ambition, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my chains:

  • Gal 5:11
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    11And I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why do I still suffer persecution? Then the offense of the cross has ceased.

  • 1 Cor 10:32
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    32Give no offense, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:

  • Col 1:27-28
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    27To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

    28Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:

  • 1 Cor 2:14
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    14But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

  • 2 Cor 2:15
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    15For we are to God the sweet aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing.

  • Eph 4:17
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    17This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind,

  • 1 Thess 2:15
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    15Who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they do not please God, and are contrary to all men:

  • 2 Cor 5:13
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    13For if we are out of our minds, it is for God; or if we are of sound mind, it is for you.

  • 1 Cor 3:11
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    11For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.