1 Corinthians 1:21
For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn’t know God, it was God’s good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.
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1 Corinthians 1:21
For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn’t know God, it was God’s good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.
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Genesis 41:38
Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?”
Genesis 41:39
Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Because God has shown you all of this, there is no one so discreet and wise as you.
Deuteronomy 4:6
Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who shall hear all these statutes and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”
1 Kings 3:28
All Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to do justice.
Job 28:28
To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’ ”
Psalms 19:7
Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.
Psalms 119:98
Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for your commandments are always with me.
Psalms 119:99
I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation.
Psalms 119:100
I understand more than the aged, because I have kept your precepts.
Proverbs 2:5
then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and find the knowledge of God.
Proverbs 2:6
For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
Daniel 5:11
There is a man in your kingdom in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of your father, light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, were found in him. The king, Nebuchadnezzar, your father—yes, the king, your father—made him master of the magicians, enchanters, Chaldeans, and soothsayers,
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Exodus 4:10
Moses said to Yahweh, “O Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before now, nor since you have spoken to your servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.”
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Numbers 21:8
Yahweh said to Moses, “Make a venomous snake, and set it on a pole. It shall happen that everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.”
John 12:31
Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out.
1 Corinthians 11:32
But when we are judged, we are disciplined by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.
James 4:4
You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
1 John 2:15
Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.
1 John 2:16
For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.
1 John 3:13
Don’t be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.
1 John 5:19
We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.
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Joshua 6:3
All of your men of war shall march around the city, going around the city once. You shall do this six days.
Joshua 6:7
They said to the people, “Advance! March around the city, and let the armed men pass on before Yahweh’s ark.”
Joshua 6:14
The second day they marched around the city once, and returned into the camp. They did this six days.
Joshua 6:20
So the people shouted and the priests blew the trumpets. When the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted with a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight in front of him, and they took the city.
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Judges 15:15
He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, put out his hand, took it, and struck a thousand men with it.
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2 Kings 5:11
But Naaman was angry, and went away and said, “Behold, I thought, ‘He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of Yahweh his God, and wave his hand over the place, and heal the leper.’
2 Kings 5:13
His servants came near and spoke to him, and said, “My father, if the prophet had asked you do some great thing, wouldn’t you have done it? How much rather then, when he says to you, ‘Wash, and be clean?’ ”
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Exodus 5:2
Pharaoh said, “Who is Yahweh, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don’t know Yahweh, and moreover I will not let Israel go.”
1 Samuel 2:3
“Don’t keep talking so exceedingly proudly. Don’t let arrogance come out of your mouth, for Yahweh is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed.
Job 12:2
“No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.
Psalms 14:2
Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who understood, who sought after God.
Psalms 53:2
God looks down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there are any who understood, who seek after God.
Psalms 92:5
How great are your works, Yahweh! Your thoughts are very deep.
Psalms 92:6
A senseless man doesn’t know, neither does a fool understand this:
Psalms 94:8
Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?
Isaiah 31:2
Yet he also is wise, and will bring disaster, and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of those who work iniquity.
Jeremiah 9:23
Yahweh says, “Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom. Don’t let the mighty man glory in his might. Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches.
Jeremiah 10:25
Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, and on the families that don’t call on your name; for they have devoured Jacob. Yes, they have devoured him, consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.
Ephesians 5:17
Therefore, don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
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Job 15:10
With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much older than your father.
Psalms 53:1
The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity. There is no one who does good.
Luke 12:56
You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how is it that you don’t interpret this time?
Romans 3:11
There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.
Ephesians 5:15
Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise,
Ephesians 5:16
redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
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Job 35:9
“By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.
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Psalms 49:10
For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.
Psalms 49:11
Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever, and their dwelling places to all generations. They name their lands after themselves.
Psalms 49:12
But man, despite his riches, doesn’t endure. He is like the animals that perish.
Psalms 49:13
This is the destiny of those who are foolish, and of those who approve their sayings. Selah.
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1 Kings 10:1
When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning Yahweh’s name, she came to test him with hard questions.
Job 12:13
“With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.
Proverbs 2:3
yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;
Proverbs 2:4
if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures;
Proverbs 3:5
Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.
Proverbs 8:14
Counsel and sound knowledge are mine. I have understanding and power.
Isaiah 8:20
Turn to the law and to the covenant! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.
Isaiah 33:6
There will be stability in your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge. The fear of Yahweh is your treasure.
Jeremiah 4:22
“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”
Daniel 2:21
He changes the times and the seasons. He removes kings and sets up kings. He gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those who have understanding.
Romans 16:19
For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.
1 Corinthians 4:4
For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.
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Proverbs 23:9
Don’t speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
Luke 16:14
The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.
John 8:52
Then the Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, as did the prophets; and you say, ‘If a man keeps my word, he will never taste of death.’
John 10:20
Many of them said, “He has a demon and is insane! Why do you listen to him?”
1 Corinthians 4:11
Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.
1 Corinthians 4:12
We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.
1 Corinthians 4:13
Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.
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2 Samuel 15:31
Someone told David, saying, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” David said, “Yahweh, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”
2 Samuel 16:23
The counsel of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, was as if a man inquired at the inner sanctuary of God. All the counsel of Ahithophel was like this both with David and with Absalom.
2 Samuel 17:23
When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, arose, and went home to his city, set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.
Job 5:12
He frustrates the plans of the crafty, so that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.
Job 5:14
They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.
Psalms 33:10
Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.
Isaiah 19:14
Yahweh has mixed a spirit of perverseness in the middle of her; and they have caused Egypt to go astray in all of its works, like a drunken man staggers in his vomit.
Isaiah 44:25
who frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; who turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish;
Jeremiah 49:7
Of Edom, Yahweh of Armies says: “Is wisdom no more in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished?
Jeremiah 51:57
I will make her princes, her wise men, her governors, her deputies, and her mighty men drunk. They will sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up,” says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies.
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Isaiah 46:6
Some pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver in the balance. They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god. They fall down— yes, they worship.
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Job 11:7
“Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty?
Job 11:8
They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper than Sheol. What can you know?
Job 11:9
Its measure is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
Job 36:26
Behold, God is great, and we don’t know him. The number of his years is unsearchable.
Isaiah 55:8
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways,” says Yahweh.
Isaiah 55:9
“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
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Jeremiah 1:6
Then I said, “Ah, Lord Yahweh! Behold, I don’t know how to speak; for I am a child.”
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Psalms 74:20
Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.
Psalms 115:4
Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
Psalms 115:6
They have ears, but they don’t hear. They have noses, but they don’t smell.
Psalms 115:7
They have hands, but they don’t feel. They have feet, but they don’t walk, neither do they speak through their throat.
Psalms 135:18
Those who make them will be like them, yes, everyone who trusts in them.
Isaiah 46:5
“To whom will you compare me, and consider my equal, and compare me, as if we were the same?
Isaiah 46:7
They bear it on their shoulder. They carry it, and set it in its place, and it stands there. It cannot move from its place. Yes, one may cry to it, yet it can not answer. It cannot save him out of his trouble.
Isaiah 46:8
“Remember this, and show yourselves men. Bring it to mind again, you transgressors.
Jeremiah 10:7
Who shouldn’t fear you, King of the nations? For it belongs to you. Because among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their royal estate, there is no one like you.
Jeremiah 10:8
But they are together brutish and foolish, instructed by idols! It is just wood.
Jeremiah 10:12
God has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens.
Jeremiah 51:17
“Every man has become stupid and without knowledge. Every goldsmith is disappointed by his image, for his molten images are falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
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Exodus 9:11
The magicians couldn’t stand before Moses because of the boils; for the boils were on the magicians and on all the Egyptians.
Isaiah 10:12
Therefore it will happen that when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the willful proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the insolence of his arrogant looks.
Isaiah 10:13
For he has said, “By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom, for I have understanding. I have removed the boundaries of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures. Like a valiant man I have brought down their rulers.
Ezekiel 28:2
“Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, ‘I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the middle of the seas;’ yet you are man, and no god, though you set your heart as the heart of a god—
Ezekiel 28:4
By your wisdom and by your understanding you have gotten yourself riches, and have gotten gold and silver into your treasuries.
Ezekiel 28:5
By your great wisdom and by your trading you have increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches—”
Ezekiel 28:6
“ ‘therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Because you have set your heart as the heart of God,
Ezekiel 28:17
Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty. You have corrupted your wisdom by reason of your splendor. I have cast you to the ground. I have laid you before kings, that they may see you.
Zechariah 9:2
and Hamath, also, which borders on it, Tyre and Sidon, because they are very wise.
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Matthew 6:23
But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
Matthew 11:19
The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by her children.”
John 1:1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Acts 17:34
But certain men joined with him and believed, including Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
Romans 5:5
and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
Romans 10:17
So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Ephesians 4:17
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,
2 Thessalonians 2:13
But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth,
1 Timothy 1:17
Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
Hebrews 2:3
how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation—which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard,
1 Peter 1:23
having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.
Revelation 13:8
All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.
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Matthew 3:17
Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”
Matthew 12:18
“Behold, my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved in whom my soul is well pleased. I will put my Spirit on him. He will proclaim justice to the nations.
Matthew 17:5
While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him.”
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Luke 1:26
Now in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth,
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Proverbs 14:12
There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.
Isaiah 2:18
The idols shall utterly pass away.
Isaiah 52:13
Behold, my servant will deal wisely. He will be exalted and lifted up, and will be very high.
Matthew 16:17
Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.
Mark 16:15
He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the Good News to the whole creation.
Luke 2:52
And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.
Luke 11:49
Therefore also the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send to them prophets and apostles; and some of them they will kill and persecute,
John 8:55
You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, ‘I don’t know him,’ I would be like you, a liar. But I know him and keep his word.
Romans 4:20
Yet, looking to the promise of God, he didn’t waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God,
2 Corinthians 5:20
We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
Colossians 1:23
if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.
2 Timothy 4:17
But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear. So I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
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John 9:30
The man answered them, “How amazing! You don’t know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes.
John 9:31
We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, he listens to him.
John 9:32
Since the world began it has never been heard of that anyone opened the eyes of someone born blind.
John 9:33
If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.”
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Isaiah 44:2
This is what Yahweh who made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you says: “Don’t be afraid, Jacob my servant; and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.
Ezekiel 13:3
The Lord Yahweh says, “Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
John 1:14
The Word became flesh and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the only born Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.
John 15:21
But they will do all these things to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me.
Acts 2:47
praising God and having favor with all the people. The Lord added to the assembly day by day those who were being saved.
Acts 17:16
Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.
Acts 17:26
He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons and the boundaries of their dwellings,
Acts 17:31
because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”
Romans 5:6
For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
1 Corinthians 15:3
For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
2 Thessalonians 2:3
Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction.
Hebrews 8:11
They will not teach every man his fellow citizen and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for all will know me, from their least to their greatest.
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Acts 7:18
until there arose a different king who didn’t know Joseph.
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Acts 17:21
Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.
Romans 1:14
I am debtor both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to the wise and to the foolish.
1 Corinthians 14:16
Otherwise, if you bless with the spirit, how will he who fills the place of the unlearned say the “Amen” at your giving of thanks, seeing he doesn’t know what you say?
1 Corinthians 15:11
Whether then it is I or they, so we preach, and so you believed.
1 Corinthians 15:21
For since death came by man, the resurrection of the dead also came by man.
2 Corinthians 8:2
how in a severe ordeal of affliction, the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their generosity.
Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself up for me.
Galatians 5:11
But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.
1 Thessalonians 4:13
But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope.
1 Timothy 2:7
to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle—I am telling the truth in Christ, not lying—a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
1 Timothy 5:6
But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.
Hebrews 13:9
Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by foods, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.
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Numbers 14:9
Only don’t rebel against Yahweh, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us. Their defense is removed from over them, and Yahweh is with us. Don’t fear them.”
Job 23:4
I would set my cause in order before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
Luke 12:32
“Don’t be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.
John 8:19
They said therefore to him, “Where is your Father?” Jesus answered, “You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”
Acts 13:8
But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith.
Acts 26:17
delivering you from the people and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you,
Romans 1:24
Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves;
1 Corinthians 3:13
each man’s work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man’s work is.
1 Corinthians 9:16
For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about, for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me if I don’t preach the Good News.
2 Corinthians 4:7
But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God and not from ourselves.
Ephesians 2:11
Therefore remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called “uncircumcision” by that which is called “circumcision” (in the flesh, made by hands),
Philippians 3:8
Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ
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Proverbs 8:4
“I call to you men! I send my voice to the sons of mankind.
Matthew 11:26
Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.
Luke 10:22
Turning to the disciples, he said, “All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is, except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son, and he to whomever the Son desires to reveal him.”
John 9:39
Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, that those who don’t see may see; and that those who see may become blind.”
Romans 1:19
because that which is known of God is revealed in them, for God revealed it to them.
Romans 2:21
You therefore who teach another, don’t you teach yourself? You who preach that a man shouldn’t steal, do you steal?
Ephesians 3:8
To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
Ephesians 3:18
may be strengthened to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and height and depth,
Colossians 2:6
As therefore you received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in him,
Colossians 2:18
Let no one rob you of your prize by self-abasement and worshiping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
1 Peter 1:12
To them it was revealed that they served not themselves, but you, in these things, which now have been announced to you through those who preached the Good News to you by the Holy Spirit sent out from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.
1 Peter 2:2
as newborn babies, long for the pure spiritual milk, that with it you may grow,
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Matthew 1:25
and didn’t know her sexually until she had given birth to her firstborn son. He named him Jesus.
Luke 11:32
The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, one greater than Jonah is here.
Romans 9:11
For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,
Romans 9:12
it was said to her, “The elder will serve the younger.”
Romans 9:13
Even as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
Romans 9:14
What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!
Romans 9:15
For he said to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
Romans 9:16
So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.
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Job 11:11
For he knows false men. He sees iniquity also, even though he doesn’t consider it.
Job 11:12
An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey’s colt.
Job 15:8
Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
Job 15:9
What do you know that we don’t know? What do you understand which is not in us?
Job 32:9
It is not the great who are wise, nor the aged who understand justice.
Job 32:13
Beware lest you say, ‘We have found wisdom. God may refute him, not man;’
John 4:48
Jesus therefore said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders, you will in no way believe.”
1 Corinthians 2:15
But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is to be judged by no one.
1 Corinthians 2:16
“For who has known the mind of the Lord that he should instruct him?” But we have Christ’s mind.
1 Corinthians 8:1
Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
1 Corinthians 15:35
But someone will say, “How are the dead raised?” and, “With what kind of body do they come?”
1 Corinthians 15:36
You foolish one, that which you yourself sow is not made alive unless it dies.
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1 Corinthians 10:5
However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
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2 Corinthians 2:14
Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place.
2 Corinthians 2:15
For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God in those who are saved and in those who perish:
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Proverbs 25:14
As clouds and wind without rain, so is he who boasts of gifts deceptively.
2 Corinthians 5:13
For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God. Or if we are of sober mind, it is for you.
2 Corinthians 10:12
For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.
2 Corinthians 11:1
I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me.
2 Corinthians 11:16
I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little.
2 Corinthians 11:17
That which I speak, I don’t speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.
2 Corinthians 11:21
To my shame, I speak as though we had been weak. Yet in whatever way anyone is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.
2 Corinthians 12:11
I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for I am in no way inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.
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1 Kings 18:43
He said to his servant, “Go up now and look toward the sea.” He went up and looked, then said, “There is nothing.” He said, “Go again” seven times.
Psalms 147:20
He has not done this for just any nation. They don’t know his ordinances. Praise Yah!
Proverbs 8:12
“I, wisdom, have made prudence my dwelling. Find out knowledge and discretion.
Daniel 4:35
All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stop his hand, or ask him, “What are you doing?”
Hosea 5:4
Their deeds won’t allow them to turn to their God, for the spirit of prostitution is within them, and they don’t know Yahweh.
Matthew 10:21
“Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death.
Romans 10:13
For, “Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
2 Corinthians 10:5
throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,
Ephesians 1:13
In him you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation—in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
Ephesians 6:16
above all, taking up the shield of faith, with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil one.
Philippians 1:27
Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;
2 Thessalonians 1:10
when he comes in that day to be glorified in his saints and to be admired among all those who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed.
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2 Timothy 2:17
and those words will consume like gangrene, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus:
2 Timothy 2:18
men who have erred concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection is already past, and overthrowing the faith of some.
2 Timothy 3:13
But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
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Hebrews 6:4
For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,
Hebrews 6:6
and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and put him to open shame.
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Isaiah 28:14
Therefore hear Yahweh’s word, you scoffers, that rule this people in Jerusalem:
Isaiah 29:15
Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from Yahweh, and whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us?” and “Who knows us?”
Isaiah 29:16
You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought to be like clay, that the thing made should say about him who made it, “He didn’t make me;” or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding?”
Isaiah 29:17
Isn’t it yet a very little while, and Lebanon will be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field will be regarded as a forest?
Isaiah 29:18
In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness.
Isaiah 29:19
The humble also will increase their joy in Yahweh, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 65:5
who say, ‘Stay by yourself, don’t come near to me, for I am holier than you.’ These are smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all day.
John 7:49
But this multitude that doesn’t know the law is cursed.”
James 3:13
Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.
James 3:14
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.
James 3:15
This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.
James 3:16
For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.
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Luke 4:43
But he said to them, “I must preach the good news of God’s Kingdom to the other cities also. For this reason I have been sent.”
Luke 13:30
Behold, there are some who are last who will be first, and there are some who are first who will be last.”
Romans 10:15
And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Good News of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!”
1 Corinthians 2:5
that your faith wouldn’t stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
1 Corinthians 9:27
but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.
1 Corinthians 15:4
that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,
2 Corinthians 5:8
We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.
Colossians 3:11
where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, or free person; but Christ is all, and in all.
2 Timothy 1:9
who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,
2 Timothy 1:11
For this I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
1 Peter 1:2
according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.
1 John 1:3
that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.
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Acts 13:46
Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said, “It was necessary that God’s word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from yourselves, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.
Acts 14:16
who in the generations gone by allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways.
Romans 1:25
who exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
2 Corinthians 4:5
For we don’t preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake,
Galatians 2:19
For I through the law died to the law, that I might live to God.
Ephesians 1:9
making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him
Ephesians 2:8
for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
Ephesians 2:17
He came and preached peace to you who were far off and to those who were near.
Ephesians 3:9
and to make all men see what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God, who created all things through Jesus Christ,
Colossians 1:21
You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil deeds,
James 1:18
Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
1 Peter 1:25
but the Lord’s word endures forever.” This is the word of Good News which was preached to you.
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2 Peter 1:19
We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you heed it as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star arises in your hearts,
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2 Peter 3:6
by which means the world that existed then, being overflowed with water, perished.
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2 Kings 2:21
He went out to the spring of the waters, and threw salt into it, and said, “Yahweh says, ‘I have healed these waters. There shall not be from there any more death or barren wasteland.’ ”
Ezekiel 47:8
Then he said to me, “These waters flow out toward the eastern region and will go down into the Arabah. Then they will go toward the sea and flow into the sea which will be made to flow out; and the waters will be healed.
Ezekiel 47:9
It will happen that every living creature which swarms, in every place where the rivers come, will live. Then there will be a very great multitude of fish; for these waters have come there, and the waters of the sea will be healed, and everything will live wherever the river comes.
Ezekiel 47:10
It will happen that fishermen will stand by it. From En Gedi even to En Eglaim will be a place for the spreading of nets. Their fish will be after their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceedingly many.
Ezekiel 47:11
But its swamps marshes will not be healed. They will be given up to salt.
Revelation 22:2
in the middle of its street. On this side of the river and on that was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruits, yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
Revelation 22:3
There will be no curse any more. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will serve him.
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