1 Corinthians 1:18

The message of the cross seems foolish to those perishing but is the very power of God to the saved. How one views the cross reveals one's standing before God.

Cross-references · 19

• 1 Cor 2:14Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
• Rom 1:16For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.
• 2 Th 2:10and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
• 1 Cor 1:23–25but we preach Christ crucified; a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,
• 2 Cor 4:3Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who perish;
• 1 Cor 1:21For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn’t know God, it was God’s good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.
• 2 Cor 2:15–16For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God, in those who are saved, and in those who perish;
• 1 Cor 3:19For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He has taken the wise in their craftiness.”
• 1 Th 1:5and that our Good News came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake.
• 1 Cor 2:2For I determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
• Acts 13:41‘Behold, you scoffers, and wonder, and perish; for I work a work in your days, a work which you will in no way believe, if one declares it to you.’”
• 2 Cor 10:4for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds,
• Heb 4:12For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
• Gal 6:12–14As many as desire to look good in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.
• Ps 110:2–3Yahweh will send out the rod of your strength out of Zion. Rule among your enemies.
• Acts 17:32Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, “We want to hear you again concerning this.”
• 1 Cor 15:2by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you — unless you believed in vain.
• Acts 2:47praising God, and having favor with all the people. The Lord added to the assembly day by day those who were being saved.
• Acts 17:18Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign deities,” because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.

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