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

Chapter Outline

1. After his salutation and thanksgiving for the Corinthians,
10. Paul exhorts them to unity,
12. and reproves their dissensions.
18. God destroys the wisdom of the wise,
21. by the foolishness of preaching;
26. and calls not the wise, mighty, and noble,
28. but the foolish, weak, and men of no account.

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54 AD

Paul Writes to the Corinthians

1 Corinthians 1 - 16

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Apollos, Cephas, Chloe, Corinthians, Crispus, Gaius, Paul, Peter, Sosthenes, Stephanas

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Cross, Destruction, Dying, Folly, Foolish, Foolishness, God's, Indeed, Message, Perdition, Perish, Perishing, Power, Preaching, Salvation, Saved, Saving, Seems

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Parallel Verses

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

KJV: For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.

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