1 Corinthians 1:23

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcome it.

For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.

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,

He will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel, he will be a stumbling stone and a rock that makes them fall. For the people of Jerusalem, he will be a trap and a snare.

Go through, go through the gates! Prepare the way of the people! Build up, build up the highway! Gather out the stones! Lift up a banner for the peoples.

the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see him and doesn’t know him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, because it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.

What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who are dying,

You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?

For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;

and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, then the mystery of God is finished, as he declared to his servants, the prophets.

Yahweh has made everything for its own end— yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.

For my people have forgotten me. They have burned incense to false gods. They have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up,

yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but on whomever it will fall, it will scatter him as dust.”

because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God;

Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.

However that which is spiritual isn’t first, but that which is natural, then that which is spiritual.

For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God, in those who are saved and in those who perish:

to the one a stench from death to death, to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?

how that by revelation the mystery was made known to me, as I wrote before in few words,

holding up the word of life, that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.

and, “a stumbling stone and a rock of offense.” For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.

For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don’t obey the Good News of God?

As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.

For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.

These are those who cause divisions and are sensual, not having the Spirit.

Then David the king went in, and sat before Yahweh; and he said, “Who am I, Lord Yahweh, and what is my house, that you have brought me this far?

Though he stumble, he shall not fall, for Yahweh holds him up with his hand.

But let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am Yahweh who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness in the earth, for I delight in these things,” says Yahweh.

He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.

Behold, one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name, came; and seeing him, he fell at his feet,

He said, “Most certainly I tell you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown.

He said, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of God’s Kingdom, but to the rest in parables; that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’

For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.

Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

As it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations.” This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.

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.

For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown, yet a wisdom not of this world nor of the rulers of this world who are coming to nothing.

But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory,

and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, those who were reputed to be pillars, gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision.

But as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.

But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.

As many as desire to make a good impression in the flesh compel you to be circumcised; just so they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him

although I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.

For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.

He breaks mighty men in pieces in ways past finding out, and sets others in their place.

The voice of one who calls out, “Prepare the way of Yahweh in the wilderness! Make a level highway in the desert for our God.

When his friends heard it, they went out to seize him; for they said, “He is insane.”

and Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary, his mother, “Behold, this child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which is spoken against.

How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?

Therefore let’s not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion for falling.

Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,

But we received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.

We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.

Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.

It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body and there is also a spiritual body.

We don’t control your faith, but are fellow workers with you for your joy. For you stand firm in faith.

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.

Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.

As he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, “Paul, you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane!”

Why? Because they didn’t seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;

For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.

Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified?

Many will stumble over it, fall, be broken, be snared, and be captured.”

He will say, “Build up, build up, prepare the way! Remove the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.”

“Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he will die. Because you have not given him warning, he will die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done will not be remembered; but I will require his blood at your hand.

Blessed is he who finds no occasion for stumbling in me.”

They were offended by him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and in his own house.”

Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, Joses, Judah, and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” They were offended at him.

Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and proclaimed to them the Christ.

Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture, preached to him about Jesus.

For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean.”

Then all the Greeks seized Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. Gallio didn’t care about any of these things.

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God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that don’t exist, that he might bring to nothing the things that exist,

For we don’t preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake,

But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

We proclaim him, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;

For we didn’t follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, “We want to hear you again concerning this.”

Some indeed preach Christ even out of envy and strife, and some also out of good will.

But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.