24But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
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But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
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.
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…
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