1 Corinthians 1:18 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁸For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.

1 Corinthians 1:18 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 2:14
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
Romans 1:16
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
2 Thessalonians 2:10
And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
1 Corinthians 1:23-25
But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; …
2 Corinthians 4:3
But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 17-31)

We have here, I. The manner in which Paul preached the gospel, and the cross of Christ: Not with the wisdom of words (1 Cor. 1:17), the enticing words of man’s wisdom (1 Cor. 2:4), the flourish of oratory, or the accuracies of philosophical language, upon which the Greeks so much prided themselves, and which seem to have been the peculiar recommendations of some of the heads of the faction in this…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 18)

18. preaching, &c.--literally, “the word,” or speech as to the cross; in contrast to the “wisdom of words” (so called), 1Co 1:17. them that perish--rather, “them that are perishing,” namely, by preferring human “wisdom of words” to the doctrine of the “cross of Christ.” It is not the final state that is referred to; but, “them that are in the way of perishing.” So also in 2Co 2:15, 16. us which ar…