1 Corinthians 2:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 2

⁶Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:

1 Corinthians 2:6 —

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Hebrews 5:14
But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
James 3:15
This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
2 Corinthians 4:4
In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
1 Corinthians 1:28
And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:
1 Peter 5:10
But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

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Commentary

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

(vv. 6-16)

In this part of the chapter the apostle shows them that though he had not come to them with the excellency of human wisdom, with any of the boasted knowledge and literature of the Jews or Greeks, yet he had communicated to them a treasure of the truest and the highest wisdom: We speak wisdom among those who are perfect (1 Cor. 2:6), among those who are well instructed in Christianity, and come to…

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

(vv. 6)

6-7. Yet the Gospel preaching, so far from being at variance with true “wisdom,” is a wisdom infinitely higher than that of the wise of the world. we speak--resuming “we” (preachers, I, Apollos, &c.) from “we preach” (1Co 1:28), only that here, “we speak” refers to something less public (compare 1Co 2:7, 13, “mystery ... hidden”) than “we preach,” which is public. For “wisdom” here denotes not the…