My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

我说的话、讲的道，不是用智慧委婉的言语，乃是用圣灵和大能的明证，

我说的话、讲的道不是用委婉智慧的言语，而是以圣灵的大能来证明，

我说的话、讲的道不是用委婉智慧的言语，而是以圣灵的大能来证明，

我说话、讲道不是靠充满智慧的雄辩之词，而是靠圣灵的能力作明证，

我说的话、讲的道，都不是用智慧的话去说服人，而是用圣灵和能力来证明，

我说话、我传道，不是藉着有智慧的说服性的话语，而是藉着圣灵和大能的明证，

我說的話、講的道，不是用智慧委婉的言語，乃是用聖靈和大能的明證，

我說的話、講的道不是用委婉智慧的言語，而是以聖靈的大能來證明，

我說的話、講的道不是用委婉智慧的言語，而是以聖靈的大能來證明，

我說話、講道不是靠充滿智慧的雄辯之詞，而是靠聖靈的能力作明證，

我說的話、講的道，都不是用智慧的話去說服人，而是用聖靈和能力來證明，

我的話語和我宣傳的、又不是用委婉動聽的智慧話語，乃是用屬靈之實證、即能力之實證，

我說話、我傳道，不是藉著有智慧的說服性的話語，而是藉著聖靈和大能的明證，

且所語所宣、不在智之婉言、惟在神與能之闡明、

吾不以私智婉言、惟以聖神之良能傳道、

且我講論宣傳、非以人智之婉言而辯、乃以聖神之大能而證、

蓋予之談吐及論道、非恃人智之巧言妙語、惟恃神力之明徵、

My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power,

I didn’t preach my message with clever and compelling words. Instead, my preaching showed the Holy Spirit’s power.

and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

And my message and my preaching were very plain. Rather than using clever and persuasive speeches, I relied only on the power of the Holy Spirit.

My speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power,

and my message and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

And my speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:

My speech and my proclamation were not with persuasive words of wisdom but with a powerful demonstration by the Spirit,

And my speech and my preaching[ was] not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:

My conversation and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

For God’s Kingdom is not in word, but in power.

For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Good News— not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ wouldn’t be made void.

and that our Good News came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake.

in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of God’s Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and around as far as to Illyricum, I have fully preached the Good News of Christ;

We also speak these things, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.

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.

For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;

To them it was revealed, that they served not to themselves, but to you, in these things, which now have been announced to you through those who preached the Good News to you by the Holy Spirit sent out from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.

for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.

Now I say this that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.

When he has come, he will convict the world about sin, about righteousness, and about judgment;about sin, because they don’t believe in me;about righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you won’t see me any more;about judgment, because the prince of this world has been judged.“ I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now.However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.He will glorify me, for he will take from what is mine, and will declare it to you.All things that the Father has are mine; therefore I said that he takes of mine and will declare it to you.

They have seen falsehood and lying divination, who say,‘ Yahweh says;’ but Yahweh has not sent them. They have made men to hope that the word would be confirmed.

With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.

Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate. When any man had a suit which should come to the king for judgment, then Absalom called to him, and said,“ What city are you from?” He said,“ Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.”Absalom said to him,“ Behold, your matters are good and right; but there is no man deputized by the king to hear you.”Absalom said moreover,“ Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man who has any suit or cause might come to me, and I would do him justice!”It was so, that when any man came near to bow down to him, he stretched out his hand, and took hold of him, and kissed him.Absalom did this sort of thing to all Israel who came to the king for judgment. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.

Yahweh said,‘ Who will entice Ahab king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth Gilead?’ One spoke saying in this way, and another saying in that way.A spirit came out, stood before Yahweh, and said,‘ I will entice him.’“ Yahweh said to him,‘ How?’“ He said,‘ I will go, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’“ He said,‘ You will entice him, and will prevail also. Go and do so.’

Agrippa said to Paul,“ With a little persuasion are you trying to make me a Christian?”

On the seventh day, they said to Samson’s wife,“ Entice your husband, that he may declare to us the riddle, lest we burn you and your father’s house with fire. Have you called us to impoverish us? Isn’t that so?”

He who goes about as a tale- bearer reveals secrets; therefore don’t keep company with him who opens wide his lips.

For I have heard the defaming of many,“ Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall.“ Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.”

“‘ Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying,“ Peace;” and there is no peace. When one builds up a wall, behold, they plaster it with whitewash.Tell those who plaster it with whitewash that it will fall. There will be an overflowing shower; and you, great hailstones, will fall. A stormy wind will tear it.

The lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her,“ Entice him, and see in which his great strength lies, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and we will each give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.”

Then your servant said,‘ Please let the word of my lord the king bring rest; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad. May Yahweh, your God, be with you.’”Then the king answered the woman,“ Please don’t hide anything from me that I ask you.” The woman said,“ Let my lord the king now speak.”The king said,“ Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?” The woman answered,“ As your soul lives, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken; for your servant Joab urged me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your servant.Your servant Joab has done this thing to change the face of the matter. My lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth.”

The messenger who went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying,“ See now, the prophets declare good to the king with one mouth. Please let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak good.”Micaiah said,“ As Yahweh lives, what Yahweh says to me, that I will speak.”