1 Corinthians 2

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1. Godliness · Catherine Booth

   The Perfect Heart cites 1 Corinthians 2:6

   …d you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.'" — Matthew 19:21 And, again, at 1 Corinthians 2:6— "Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom," — 1 Corinthians 2:6 And 2 Timothy 3:17— "tha…

2. How to Bring Men to Christ · R. A. Torrey

   Dealing with Professed Skeptics and Infidels cites 1 Cor. ii. 14

   …e—them that perish—and the reason it is foolishness to you is because you are perishing.” 1 Cor. ii. 14, can be used in a similar way. A worker was one night dealing with a man who said to him …

3. Men Who Tended the Flock · Ochorus Originals

   Scripture Appendix: God’s Word on the Pastoral Calling cites 1 Corinthians 2:2

   …ely. Persevere in them, because if you do, you will save both yourself and your hearers.” 1 Corinthians 2:2 — “For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucif…

4. Men Who Tended the Flock · Ochorus Originals

   Robert Murray M’Cheyne — The Holy Young Shepherd of Dundee cites 1 Corinthians 2:2

   …r I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified” (1 Corinthians 2:2, NIV). This was not intellectual narrowness but pastoral wisdom: in the crucified Christ …

5. Watchman Nee · Watchman Nee

   The Legacy of Watchman Nee cites 1 Corinthians 2:2

   …ays, “I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified” (1 Corinthians 2:2, ASV). A Life to Learn From, Not Imitate Mechanically Biographies tempt readers toward im…

6. The Inner Chamber · Andrew Murray

   The Open Door — The Open Reward cites 1 Corinthians 2:3

   …from us will be unconscious; it will but deepen the sense of our being an earthen vessel (1 Corinthians 2:3, 4 and 2 Corinthians 4). The sense of God’s presence in a man may often cause others to f…

7. Baptism with the Holy Spirit · R. A. Torrey

   Necessity and Possibility of the Baptism with the Holy Spirit cites 1 Corinthians 2:4

   …it "in persuasive words of wisdom" and not "in demonstration of the spirit and of power" (1 Corinthians 2:4), preaching it in the energy of the flesh and not in the power of the Holy Spirit. There …

8. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections · Jonathan Edwards

   XII. Gracious and holy affections have their exercise and fruit in Christian practice cites 1 Cor. 2:4

   …st, which is the immediate spring of grace in the heart, is all life, all power, all act: 1 Cor. 2:4, "In demonstration of the Spirit, and of power." 1 Thess. 1:5, "Our gospel came not unto …

9. The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit · R. A. Torrey

   The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit as Revealed in His Names cites 1 Corinthians 2:4

   …ohn 14:26, John 16:12-14), when we do personal work (Acts 8:29), when we preach or teach (1 Corinthians 2:4), when we are tempted (Romans 8:2), when we leave this world (Acts 7:54-60). Let us get t…

10. The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit · R. A. Torrey

    The Baptism with the Holy Spirit cites 1 Corinthians 2:4

    …“persuasive words of man's wisdom” and not “in demonstration of the Spirit and of power” (1 Corinthians 2:4.). Preaching it in the energy of the flesh and not in the power of the Holy Spirit. There…

11. The Pilgrim's Progress · John Bunyan

    The Sixth Stage cites 1 Cor. 2:7

    … so that from one end of the fair to the other, they seemed barbarians each to the other. 1 Cor. 2:7,8. Thirdly, But that which did not a little amuse the merchandisers was, that these pilgr…

12. The Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Faith · R. A. Torrey

    Jesus Christ a Real Man cites 1 Cor. 2:8

    …s Jesus who died, the Person who was at once God and man. We are told in so many words in 1 Cor. 2:8, that they "Crucified the Lord of glory," and we saw in the last chapter that the "Lord o…

13. The Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Faith · R. A. Torrey

    The Deity of Jesus Christ cites 1 Cor. 2:8

    …Omega, saith the Lord God, which is and which was and which is to come, the Almighty." In 1 Cor. 2:8, the Apostle Paul speaks of our crucified Lord Jesus as "the Lord of glory." His exact wo…

14. Waiting on God · Andrew Murray

    For Unlooked-for Things cites 1 Cor. 2:9

    …fference is: in the R.V. it is the God who works, in the A.V. the thing He is to work. In 1 Cor. 2:9, the citation is in regard to the things which the Holy Spirit is to reveal, as in the A.…

15. The God of All Comfort · Hannah Whitall Smith

    Much More Versus Much Less cites 1 Corinthians 2:9

    … ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him” (1 Corinthians 2:9). If He has prepared more than we can even imagine, surely we can trust Him for the thing…

16. Absolute Surrender · Andrew Murray

    Absolute Surrender cites 1 Cor. 2:9

    … not heard, neither hath the eye seen, what God hath prepared for them that wait for Him (1 Cor. 2:9). God has prepared unheard-of things, blessings much more wonderful than you can imagine,…

17. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    1.2 Love cites 1 Cor 2: 9

    …e has not seen, nor ear heard, the things which God has prepared for them that love him.’ 1 Cor 2: 9. If you will love him, you shall have such a reward as exceeds your faith. He will betrot…

18. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.2 The Second Commandment cites 1 Cor 2: 9

    …o God. ‘Eye has not seen, &c., the things which God has prepared for them that love him.’ 1 Cor 2: 9. Such glorious rewards are laid up for them that love God, that as Augustine says, ‘they …

19. The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit · R. A. Torrey

    The Personality of the Holy Spirit cites 1 Corinthians 2:10

    …lity are repeatedly ascribed to the Holy Spirit in the Old and New Testaments. We read in 1 Corinthians 2:10-11, “God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even …

20. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    4.3 The Word cites 1 Cor 2: 10

    …the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, that we may see the ‘deep things of God.’ Eph 1: 17, 1 Cor 2: 10. Pray God that the same Spirit that wrote the Scripture would enable us to understand it.…

21. The Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Faith · R. A. Torrey

    The Personality of the Holy Spirit cites 1 Cor. 2:11

    …s of personality are ascribed to the Holy Spirit in the Bible. (1) Turn in your Bibles to 1 Cor. 2:11. "For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? Even …

22. The Master’s Indwelling · Andrew Murray

    The Source of Power in Prayer cites 1 Corinthians 2:11

    …thew 20:22. Paul says, "No one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God." 1 Corinthians 2:11. You say, "If I am not to pray the old prayers I learned from my mother or from my profes…

23. A Plain Account of Christian Perfection · John Wesley

    Section 25 cites 1 Cor. 2:12

    …e Spirit which is of God; that we may know the things which are freely given us of God.’ (1 Cor. 2:12.) “Now surely sanctification is one of ‘the things which are freely given us of God.’ And…

24. Sermons on Several Occasions · John Wesley

    The First Fruits of the Spirit cites 1 Cor. 2:12

    … which is of God; that they might know the things which are freely given to them of God” (1 Cor. 2:12); which Spirit “beareth witness with their spirits, that they are the children of God.” A…

25. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections · Jonathan Edwards

    XI. It is no sign that affections are right, or that they are wrong, that they make persons that have them exceeding confident that what they experience is divine, and that they are in a good estate cites 1 Cor. 2:12

    … by what means Christians (and not only the apostles and martyrs) were wont to know this: 1 Cor. 2:12, "Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God; that…

26. Absolute Surrender · Andrew Murray

    Separated unto the Holy Spirit cites 1 Cor. 2:12

    …Paul said: “We have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit that is of God” (1 Cor. 2:12). That is the great want in every worker—the spirit of the world going out, and the Spiri…

27. Evening by Evening · Charles H. Spurgeon

    February cites 1 Corinthians 2:12

    …irit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.” (1 Corinthians 2:12) Dear reader, have you received the spirit which is of God, wrought by the Holy Ghost in …

28. The Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Faith · R. A. Torrey

    Inspiration, or to What Extent Is the Bible Inspired of God? cites 1 Cor. 2:13

    …e the words in which the thought was to be expressed. We find this very clearly stated in 1 Cor. 2:13: "Which things also we speak, not in words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Hol…

29. The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit · R. A. Torrey

    The Work of the Holy Spirit in Prophets and Apostles cites 1 Corinthians 2:13

    …thought (or “concept”) but the words in which the thought was to be expressed. We read in 1 Corinthians 2:13, “And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interp…

30. Sermons on Several Occasions · John Wesley

    Discourse I cites 1 Cor. 2:14

    …tion of the Apostle, that “he cannot know them, because they are spiritually discerned;” [1 Cor. 2:14] even by spiritual senses, which the natural man hath not. 12. “But how shall I know that…

31. The Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Faith · R. A. Torrey

    The New Birth cites 1 Cor. 2:14

    …irit" he cannot see or receive. "They are foolishness unto him, and he cannot know them" (1 Cor. 2:14). His affections are corrupt, he loves the things he ought to hate and hates the things h…

32. The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit · R. A. Torrey

    The Holy Spirit Bearing Witness to Jesus Christ cites 1 Corinthians 2:14

    …with that spiritual blindness that possesses every mind unenlightened by the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 2:14). We go over it again, and still he does not see it. We go over it again, and his face li…

33. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections · Jonathan Edwards

    IV. Gracious affections do arise from the mind's being enlightened, richly and spiritually to understand or apprehend divine things cites 1 Cor. 2:14

    …scerning of divine things, that natural men have nothing of, which the apostle speaks of, 1 Cor. 2:14: "But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolish…

34. Feasting at the table · Gareth Evans

    In Him cites 1 Cor 2:14

    …subject to Him. Natural man cannot receive such a revelation – it is foolishness to him. (1 Cor 2:14) Ephesians 1:11: We have received an inheritance in Him. Not earned or as a reward! Ours …

35. He Holds My Tomorrows · Gareth Evans

    Three Kinds of Faith cites 1 Corinthians 2:14

    …ly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned” (1 Corinthians 2:14). Thus, it is that patience for example, has little to do with patiently waiting for the …

36. The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit · R. A. Torrey

    The Regenerating Work of the Holy Spirit cites 1 Corinthians 2:14

    …ly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.” 1 Corinthians 2:14.) With affections that are disconnected from God, loving the things that we ought to hate…

37. Talks to the Farmer · Charles H. Spurgeon

    The Joy of Harvest cites 1 Corinthians 2:14

    …natural person does not accept the things of God, because they are spiritually discerned. 1 Corinthians 2:14 But oh, the happiness of knowing that Christ is yours, and of being close to him. To touc…

38. The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit · R. A. Torrey

    The Holy Spirit as a Teacher cites 1 Corinthians 2:14

    …y to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.” (1 Corinthians 2:14). Not only is the Holy Spirit the Author of revelation, the written Word of God: He is al…

39. Watchman Nee · Watchman Nee

    Spirit, Soul, and Body cites 1 Corinthians 2:14

    …otion, or will rather than the human spirit under the Holy Spirit. The language drew from 1 Corinthians 2:14, where the ASV says “the natural man” does not receive the things of the Spirit of God. T…

40. The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit · R. A. Torrey

    The Deity of the Holy Spirit cites 1 Corinthians 2:10-11

    …” Omniscience is ascribed to the Holy Spirit in several passages. For example, we read in 1 Corinthians 2:10-11, “ These things God has revealed to us through the Spirit, for the Spirit searches everyt…