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1 Corinthians 2 3
I came to you in weakness with great fear and trembling. (niv)
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Acts 17:18
A group of Epicurean and Stoic philosophers began to debate with him. Some of them asked,“ What is this babbler trying to say?” Others remarked,“ He seems to be advocating foreign gods.” They said this because Paul was preaching the good news about Jesus and the resurrection. (niv)
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1 Corinthians 3 18
Do not deceive yourselves. If any of you think you are wise by the standards of this age, you should become“ fools” so that you may become wise. (niv)
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Acts 26:24
At this point Festus interrupted Paul’s defense.“ You are out of your mind, Paul!” he shouted.“ Your great learning is driving you insane.” (niv)
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2 Corinthians 13 9
We are glad whenever we are weak but you are strong; and our prayer is that you may be fully restored. (niv)
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2 Corinthians 10 10
For some say,“ His letters are weighty and forceful, but in person he is unimpressive and his speaking amounts to nothing.” (niv)
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Matthew 24:9
“ Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me. (niv)
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1 Corinthians 10 14-1 Corinthians 10 15
Therefore, my dear friends, flee from idolatry.I speak to sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say. (niv)
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Matthew 5:11
“ Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. (niv)
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Acts 17:32
When they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some of them sneered, but others said,“ We want to hear you again on this subject.” (niv)
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Matthew 10:22-25
You will be hated by everyone because of me, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved.When you are persecuted in one place, flee to another. Truly I tell you, you will not finish going through the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.“ The student is not above the teacher, nor a servant above his master.It is enough for students to be like their teachers, and servants like their masters. If the head of the house has been called Beelzebul, how much more the members of his household! (niv)
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Isaiah 53:3
He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem. (niv)
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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; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”Where is the wise person? Where is the teacher of the law? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? (niv)
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Luke 18:9
To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everyone else, Jesus told this parable: (niv)
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2 Corinthians 13 3-2 Corinthians 13 4
since you are demanding proof that Christ is speaking through me. He is not weak in dealing with you, but is powerful among you.For to be sure, he was crucified in weakness, yet he lives by God’s power. Likewise, we are weak in him, yet by God’s power we will live with him in our dealing with you. (niv)
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1 Corinthians 10 12
So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don’t fall! (niv)
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2 Corinthians 11 19
You gladly put up with fools since you are so wise! (niv)
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1 Corinthians 1 1-1 Corinthians 1 3
Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be his holy people, together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ— their Lord and ours:Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. (niv)
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Proverbs 11:12
Whoever derides their neighbor has no sense, but the one who has understanding holds their tongue. (niv)
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2 Corinthians 11 29
Who is weak, and I do not feel weak? Who is led into sin, and I do not inwardly burn? (niv)
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2 Kings 9 11
When Jehu went out to his fellow officers, one of them asked him,“ Is everything all right? Why did this maniac come to you?”“ You know the man and the sort of things he says,” Jehu replied. (niv)
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1 Corinthians 3 2
I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready. (niv)
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2 Corinthians 12 9-2 Corinthians 12 10
But he said to me,“ My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong. (niv)
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1 Corinthians 2 14
The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. (niv)
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Luke 6:22
Blessed are you when people hate you, when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil, because of the Son of Man. (niv)
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Jeremiah 8:8-9
“‘ How can you say,“ We are wise, for we have the law of the Lord,” when actually the lying pen of the scribes has handled it falsely?The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and trapped. Since they have rejected the word of the Lord, what kind of wisdom do they have? (niv)
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1 Corinthians 4 8
Already you have all you want! Already you have become rich! You have begun to reign— and that without us! How I wish that you really had begun to reign so that we also might reign with you! (niv)
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1 Thessalonians 4 8
Therefore, anyone who rejects this instruction does not reject a human being but God, the very God who gives you his Holy Spirit. (niv)
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Hosea 9:7
The days of punishment are coming, the days of reckoning are at hand. Let Israel know this. Because your sins are so many and your hostility so great, the prophet is considered a fool, the inspired person a maniac. (niv)
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1 Peter 4 14
If you are insulted because of the name of Christ, you are blessed, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. (niv)
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Luke 10:16
“ Whoever listens to you listens to me; whoever rejects you rejects me; but whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.” (niv)
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1 Corinthians 1 26-1 Corinthians 1 28
Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth.But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things— and the things that are not— to nullify the things that are, (niv)
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Acts 9:16
I will show him how much he must suffer for my name.” (niv)