Key Verse Spotlight
1 Corinthians 2:4 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“And my speech and my preaching {was} not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: {enticing: or, persuasible}”
1 Corinthians 2:4
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
And my speech and my preaching {was} not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: {enticing: or, persuasible}
That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. {stand: Gr. be}
Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:
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