Top 56 1 Corinthians 2 Quotes
#1. We have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, in order to know what has been freely given to us by God. 1 Corinthians 2:12
Beth Moore
#2. What, then, is good preaching? Let me pull all these ideas together into a single description. It is "proclaim[ing]. . . . the testimony of God" (1 Corinthians 2:1) - preaching biblically, engaging with the authoritative text. This means preaching the Word and not your opinion.
Timothy Keller
#3. 1 Corinthians 2:7 (CEB)
We talk about God's Wisdom, which has been hidden as a secret. God determined this wisdom in advance, before time began for our glory.
Anonymous
#4. Who has known the Lord's mind, that he may instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ. 1 Corinthians 2:16
Beth Moore
#5. What no eye has seen and no ear has heard ... is what God has prepared for those who love Him. 1 Corinthians 2:9
Beth Moore
#6. Never consider whether or not you are of use - but always consider that "you are not your own" (1 Corinthians 6:19). You are His.
Oswald Chambers
#7. Katy had her Bible out. She wanted to read from 2 Corinthians, the first chapter, where the Christians were told that the sufferings of Christ would overflow into their lives as surely as the comfort would.
Karen Kingsbury
#8. We take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ (2 Corinthians 10:5).
Lysa TerKeurst
#9. But love, real love, the kind that you fall in, isn't like Corinthians. The "suffereth long" and "is kind" nonsense. It's like the Song of Solomon. It's jealousy and fire and floods. It's everything that consumes." - Lady Fennimore
Julie Anne Long
#10. We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves. When they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are not wise.
Anonymous
#11. When Jesus said, "Do this in remembrance of me" (1 Corinthians 11:24) he was not prescribing a periodic slug of nostalgia.
Frederick Buechner
#12. But when perfections comes, the imperfect disappears
1st Corinthians
Anonymous
#13. Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love. (1 Corinthians 13:1-13)
Stephen W. Smith
#14. If the ministry of condemnation had glory, the ministry of righteousness overflows with even more glory. 2 Corinthians 3:9
Beth Moore
#15. For a few moments, please consider with me the lives of Moses, David, and some New Testament examples as well. I truly believe we can and should learn from their experiences which God has so lovingly guarded and preserved through the ages for our benefit (1 Corinthians 10:1-5)
Teresa Hampton
#16. Three things will last forever - faith, hope, and love - and the greatest of these is love. - 1 Corinthians 13:13
Gary Chapman
#17. No one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. 1 CORINTHIANS 3:11
Anne Graham Lotz
#18. Even though Jack wasn't a romantic man in big showy ways, those little things let me know his feelings more than any high-dollar roses on Valentine's Day ever could have. In Corinthians, Paul says love's not boastful, so I reckon Jack got it right. His love was patient and quiet, and it endured.
Lisa Wingate
#19. Salvation is not mainly the forgiveness of sins, but mainly the fellowship of Jesus (1 Corinthians 1:9).
John Piper
#20. Too often we assume that God has increased our income to increase our standard of living, when his stated purpose is to increase our standard of giving. (Look again at 2 Corinthians 8:14 and 9:11).
Randy Alcorn
#21. Referencing 2 Corinthians 4:6, Robert Hewitt compares jars of clay in the first century to the same value we would put on a cardboard box. Joni Eareckson Tada queries whether we would question God's right to leave some holes in the box in order to give glimpses of the treasure inside
Joni Eareckson Tada
#22. As Second Corinthians 2:14 says, "But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and manifests through us the sweet aroma of the knowledge of Him in every place" (NASB).
Bookbaby
#23. If I have the gift of the prophecy, and can fathom all mystery's and knowledge, and if I have faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
Anonymous
#24. God comes alongside us when we go through hard times, and before you know it, he brings us alongside someone else who is going through hard times so that we can be there for that person just as God was there for us.-2 Corinthians 1:4
Eugene H. Peterson
#25. Leadership is not something that is added, but rather built in the DNA of creation, an orderly creation (1 Corinthians 12:12; 14:38-45; Titus 1:5; Genesis 1; 2). The real question is whether humanity has high-jacked Leadership?
Jonah Books
#26. When it comes to yourself, follow God's formula-
deny yourself of overindulgence (Proverbs 23:2 and 30:8),
examine yourself for any sinful habits (1 Corinthians 11:28),
% exercise yourself to godliness (1 Timothy 4:7), and
IK- develop self-control (Galatians 5:23).
Elizabeth George
#27. For all the promises of God find their Yes in him. That is why it is through him that we utter our Amen to God for his glory. 2 Corinthians 1:20
Tim Kerr
#28. *I have fulfillment for this day because Christ lives in me. (Philippians 1:20-21) *By faith, I will allow Christ to manifest His life through me. (2 Corinthians 2:14)
Kenneth D. Boa
#29. When this tent we live in - our body here on earth - is torn down, God will have a house in heaven for us to live in, a home he himself has made, which will last forever. 2 CORINTHIANS 5:1 TEV
Rick Warren
#30. Anyone who claims to know all the answers doesn't really know very much. - 1 Corinthians 8:2
Gary Chapman
#31. Many New Testament scholars have observed that the conception of the resurrection body implied in 1 Corinthians 15 clashes so violently with that presupposed in the gospels that the latter must be dismissed as secondary embellishments, especially as 1 Corinthians predates the gospels.
Robert M. Price
#32. Prayer is the most powerful weapon we have in our spiritual arsenal to stand against the world's greatest enemy, the one who presents himself as an angel of light [2 Corinthians 11:14].
Billy Graham
#33. God uses our weaknesses to strengthen us..... 2 Corinthians 12:7-10
Amanda Penland
#34. Love never fails. - I Corinthians 13:8a
Anonymous
#35. I have promised you in marriage to one husband - to present a pure virgin to Christ. 2 Corinthians 11:2
Beth Moore
#36. A man "is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man" (1 Corinthians 11:7).
Stephen Kendrick
#37. We are ambassadors for Christ; certain that God is appealing through us, we plead on Christ's behalf: "Be reconciled to God." 2 Corinthians 5:20
Beth Moore
#38. For we live by faith, not by sight."
2 Corinthians 5:7
Anonymous
#39. We don't become saints by our actions. We are made saints by the immediate supernatural action of the Holy Spirit alone who works this change deep within our inner being so that we do, in fact, become new creations in Christ (see 2 Corinthians 5:17).
Jerry Bridges
#40. Run for the hills. The Bible commands us to "flee immorality" (1 Corinthians 6:18). Only a fool says, "I can handle temptation without sinning." The wise man says, "I'm not going anywhere near it.
Stephen Kendrick
#41. 6 weeks since the Rapture "Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption." Corinthians 15:50
Phillip W. Simpson
#42. Means of escape to a landing place), that you may be capable and strong and powerful to bear up under it patiently. 1 Corinthians 10:13
Joyce Meyer
#43. 1 Corinthians 4:5 Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of the heart. At that time each will receive their praise from God.
Bible. New International Version
#44. Was I wrong when I humbled myself and honored you by preaching God's Good News to you without expecting anything in return? - 2 Corinthians 11:7
Gary Chapman
#45. We have renounced shameful secret things, not walking in deceit or distorting God's message. 2 Corinthians 4:2
Beth Moore
#46. The apostle Paul said, "I will very gladly spend and be spent for you" (2 Corinthians 12:15 KJV). That's part of what is involved in ministering to others, whether in a synagogue, a Sunday school class, or a house full of little ones.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#47. I've been Catholic all my life, and there's one thing I've never understood. Why didn't the Corinthians write back?
Tommy Lasorda
#48. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. Corinthians, 15:52
Phillip W. Simpson
#49. So these three things remain: faith, hope, and love. But the best one of these is love. I Corinthians 13:13
Anonymous
#51. Let me tell you, my girl, that I'm swallowing no more of your insults! And if I hear another word from you in disparagement of the Corinthian set it will be very much the worse for you!
Georgette Heyer
#52. [re: I Corinthians 15:34,58] "The present life of the church, in other words, is not about "soul-making," the attempt to produce or train disembodied beings for a future disembodied life. It is about working with fully human beings who will be reembodied at the last, after the model of the Messiah.
N. T. Wright
#53. No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it. (1 Corinthians 10:13 NIV)
Jonathan McKee
#54. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you. 2 Corinthians 13:13
Beth Moore
#55. You are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God - and righteousness and sanctification and redemption. - 1 CORINTHIANS 1:30
David Jeremiah
#56. Take care of your body; the Bible calls it "a temple of the Holy Spirit" [1 Corinthians 6:19 NIV.
Billy Graham
