1Cor 4:10 Cross References
1 Corinthians 4:10
10: Our dedication to Christ makes us look like fools, but you are so wise! We are weak, but you are so powerful! You are well thought of, but we are laughed at.
1 Corinthians 2:3
- I came to you in weakness--timid and trembling.
Acts 26:24
- Suddenly, Festus shouted, "Paul, you are insane. Too much study has made you crazy!"
1 Corinthians 3:18
- Stop fooling yourselves. If you think you are wise by this world's standards, you will have to become a fool so you can become wise by God's standards.
Acts 17:18
- He also had a debate with some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers. When he told them about Jesus and his resurrection, they said, "This babbler has picked up some strange ideas." Others said, "He's pushing some foreign religion."
2 Corinthians 13:9
- We are glad to be weak, if you are really strong. What we pray for is your restoration to maturity.
1 Corinthians 2:14
- But people who aren't Christians can't understand these truths from God's Spirit. It all sounds foolish to them because only those who have the Spirit can understand what the Spirit means.
2 Corinthians 10:10
- For some say, "Don't worry about Paul. His letters are demanding and forceful, but in person he is weak, and his speeches are really bad!"
Hosea 9:7
- The time of Israel's punishment has come; the day of payment is almost here. Soon Israel will know this all too well. "The prophets are crazy!" the people shout. "The inspired men are mad!" So they taunt, for the nation is burdened with sin and shows only hatred for those who love God.
2 Corinthians 13:3
- I will give you all the proof you want that Christ speaks through me. Christ is not weak in his dealings with you; he is a mighty power among you.
- Although he died on the cross in weakness, he now lives by the mighty power of God. We, too, are weak, but we live in him and have God's power--the power we use in dealing with you.
1 Thessalonians 4:8
- Anyone who refuses to live by these rules is not disobeying human rules but is rejecting God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.
1 Corinthians 4:8
- You think you already have everything you need! You are already rich! Without us you have become kings! I wish you really were on your thrones already, for then we would be reigning with you!
Jeremiah 8:8
- " `How can you say, "We are wise because we have the law of the LORD," when your teachers have twisted it so badly?
- These wise teachers will be shamed by exile for their sin, for they have rejected the word of the LORD. Are they so wise after all?
Matthew 24:9
- "Then you will be arrested, persecuted, and killed. You will be hated all over the world because of your allegiance to me.
Luke 6:22
- God blesses you who are hated and excluded and mocked and cursed because you are identified with me, the Son of Man.
1 Corinthians 1:26
- Remember, dear brothers and sisters, that few of you were wise in the world's eyes, or powerful, or wealthy when God called you.
- Instead, God deliberately chose things the world considers foolish in order to shame those who think they are wise. And he chose those who are powerless to shame those who are powerful.
- God chose things despised by the world, things counted as nothing at all, and used them to bring to nothing what the world considers important,
Luke 10:16
- Then he said to the disciples, "Anyone who accepts your message is also accepting me. And anyone who rejects you is rejecting me. And anyone who rejects me is rejecting God who sent me."
Acts 9:16
- And I will show him how much he must suffer for me."
2 Corinthians 11:29
- Who is weak without my feeling that weakness? Who is led astray, and I do not burn with anger?
Matthew 10:22
- And everyone will hate you because of your allegiance to me. But those who endure to the end will be saved.
- When you are persecuted in one town, flee to the next. I assure you that I, the Son of Man, will return before you have reached all the towns of Israel.
- "A student is not greater than the teacher. A servant is not greater than the master.
- The student shares the teacher's fate. The servant shares the master's fate. And since I, the master of the household, have been called the prince of demons, how much more will it happen to you, the members of the household!
2 Kings 9:11
- Jehu went back to his fellow officers, and one of them asked him, "What did that crazy fellow want? Is everything all right?You know the way such a man babbles on," Jehu replied.
1 Peter 4:14
- Be happy if you are insulted for being a Christian, for then the glorious Spirit of God will come upon you.
Luke 18:9
- Then Jesus told this story to some who had great self-confidence and scorned everyone else:
Isaiah 53:3
- He was despised and rejected--a man of sorrows, acquainted with bitterest grief. We turned our backs on him and looked the other way when he went by. He was despised, and we did not care.
1 Corinthians 3:2
- I had to feed you with milk and not with solid food, because you couldn't handle anything stronger. And you still aren't ready,
Matthew 5:11
- "God blesses you when you are mocked and persecuted and lied about because you are my followers.
1 Corinthians 10:14
- So, my dear friends, flee from the worship of idols.
- You are reasonable people. Decide for yourselves if what I am about to say is true.
2 Corinthians 11:19
- After all, you, who think you are so wise, enjoy listening to fools!
Proverbs 11:12
- It is foolish to belittle a neighbor; a person with good sense remains silent.
2 Corinthians 12:9
- Each time he said, "My gracious favor is all you need. My power works best in your weakness." So now I am glad to boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may work through me.
- Since I know it is all for Christ's good, I am quite content with my weaknesses and with insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
1 Corinthians 10:12
- If you think you are standing strong, be careful, for you, too, may fall into the same sin.
Acts 17:32
- When they heard Paul speak of the resurrection of a person who had been dead, some laughed, but others said, "We want to hear more about this later."
1 Corinthians 1:1
- This letter is from Paul, chosen by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and from our brother Sosthenes.
- We are writing to the church of God in Corinth, you who have been called by God to be his own holy people. He made you holy by means of Christ Jesus, just as he did all Christians everywhere--whoever calls upon the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and theirs.
- May God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you his grace and peace.
1 Corinthians 1:18
- I know very well how foolish the message of the cross sounds to those who are on the road to destruction. But we who are being saved recognize this message as the very power of God.
- As the Scriptures say, "I will destroy human wisdom and discard their most brilliant ideas."
- So where does this leave the philosophers, the scholars, and the world's brilliant debaters? God has made them all look foolish and has shown their wisdom to be useless nonsense.