1 Corinthians 2:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁷But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:

1 Corinthians 2:7 —

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Colossians 1:26-27
Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: …
2 Peter 1:3
According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
Matthew 11:25
At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.
Romans 16:25-26
Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began, …
Psalms 78:2
I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:

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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. 7)

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…