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1 Corinthians 2 3
I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.
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Acts 17:18
Then certain Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him. And some said,“ What does this babbler want to say?” Others said,“ He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods,” because he preached to them Jesus and the resurrection.
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1 Corinthians 3 18
Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise.
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Acts 26:24
Now as he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice,“ Paul, you are beside yourself! Much learning is driving you mad!”
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2 Corinthians 13 9
For we are glad when we are weak and you are strong. And this also we pray, that you may be made complete.
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2 Corinthians 10 10
“ For his letters,” they say,“ are weighty and powerful, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.”
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Matthew 24:9
“ Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake.
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1 Corinthians 10 14-1 Corinthians 10 15
Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.I speak as to wise men; judge for yourselves what I say.
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Matthew 5:11
Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake.
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Acts 17:32
And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked, while others said,“ We will hear you again on this matter.”
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Matthew 10:22-25
And you will be hated by all for My name’s sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved.When they persecute you in this city, flee to another. For assuredly, I say to you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel before the Son of Man comes.“ A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master.It is enough for a disciple that he be like his teacher, and a servant like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more will they call those of his household!
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Isaiah 53:3
He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
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1 Corinthians 1 18-1 Corinthians 1 20
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.For it is written:“ I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.”Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
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Luke 18:9
Also He spoke this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:
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2 Corinthians 13 3-2 Corinthians 13 4
since you seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, who is not weak toward you, but mighty in you.For though He was crucified in weakness, yet He lives by the power of God. For we also are weak in Him, but we shall live with Him by the power of God toward you.
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1 Corinthians 10 12
Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.
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2 Corinthians 11 19
For you put up with fools gladly, since you yourselves are wise!
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1 Corinthians 1 1-1 Corinthians 1 3
Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,To the church of God which is at Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who in every place call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Proverbs 11:12
He who is devoid of wisdom despises his neighbor, But a man of understanding holds his peace.
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2 Corinthians 11 29
Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to stumble, and I do not burn with indignation?
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2 Kings 9 11
Then Jehu came out to the servants of his master, and one said to him,“ Is all well? Why did this madman come to you?” And he said to them,“ You know the man and his babble.”
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1 Corinthians 3 2
I fed you with milk and not with solid food; for until now you were not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able;
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2 Corinthians 12 9-2 Corinthians 12 10
And He said to me,“ My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
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1 Corinthians 2 14
But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
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Luke 6:22
Blessed are you when men hate you, And when they exclude you, And revile you, and cast out your name as evil, For the Son of Man’s sake.
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Jeremiah 8:8-9
“ How can you say,‘ We are wise, And the law of the Lord is with us’? Look, the false pen of the scribe certainly works falsehood.The wise men are ashamed, They are dismayed and taken. Behold, they have rejected the word of the Lord; So what wisdom do they have?
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1 Corinthians 4 8
You are already full! You are already rich! You have reigned as kings without us— and indeed I could wish you did reign, that we also might reign with you!
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1 Thessalonians 4 8
Therefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who has also given us His Holy Spirit.
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Hosea 9:7
The days of punishment have come; The days of recompense have come. Israel knows! The prophet is a fool, The spiritual man is insane, Because of the greatness of your iniquity and great enmity.
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1 Peter 4 14
If you are reproached for the name of Christ, blessed are you, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. On their part He is blasphemed, but on your part He is glorified.
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Luke 10:16
He who hears you hears Me, he who rejects you rejects Me, and he who rejects Me rejects Him who sent Me.”
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1 Corinthians 1 26-1 Corinthians 1 28
For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called.But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty;and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are,
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Acts 9:16
For I will show him how many things he must suffer for My name’s sake.”