but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
Parallel translations
- WEB but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God.
- KJV But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
- NKJV but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
- NASB but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
- NLT But to those called by God to salvation, both Jews and Gentiles, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God.
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Quick answer
To those whom God calls, both Jews and Greeks, Christ crucified is God's power and wisdom. What seems foolish is in truth the highest divine wisdom and might.
Overview
For the 'called,' God's effective summons to faith, the crucified Christ is no scandal but the very power and wisdom of God. The cross accomplishes what signs and philosophy never could: salvation. In Christ, God's power and wisdom converge, uniting Jew and Gentile in one saved people.
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- Wisdom"Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God."
Cross-references · 13
- 1 Cor 1:30It is because of Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God: our righteousness, holiness, and redemption.
- Col 2:3in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
- 1 Cor 1:18For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
- Rom 1:16I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, then to the Greek.
- 1 Cor 1:9God, who has called you into fellowship with His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, is faithful.
- Rom 8:28–30And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.
- Rom 1:4and who through the Spirit of holiness was declared with power to be the Son of God by His resurrection from the dead: Jesus Christ our Lord.
- Rom 9:24including us, whom He has called not only from the Jews, but also from the Gentiles?
- Luke 7:35But wisdom is vindicated by all her children.”
- Prov 8:22–30The LORD created me as His first course, before His works of old.
- 1 Cor 1:2To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be holy, together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours:
- Luke 11:49Because of this, the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles; some of them they will kill and others they will persecute.’
- Prov 8:1Does not wisdom call out, and understanding raise her voice?
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Christ crucified is the wisdom and power of God; he is our Passover sacrificed for us, the firstfruits of resurrection, the foundation on which everything is built.
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