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1 Cor. 1:23 KJV (With Strong’s)

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But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblockd, and unto the Greeks foolishness;

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Isa. 8:14• (Isa. 8:14)

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1 Peter 2:8• ⁸and stone of stumbling, and rock of offence; stumbling as they do at the word, being disobedient, unto which also they were appointed. (1 Peter 2:8)

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1 Cor. 1:18• ¹⁸For the word of the cross is to those that perish foolishness, but to us that are to be saved it is God's power. (1 Cor. 1:18)

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1 Cor. 2:2• ²For I determined not to know anything among you save Jesus Christ and him crucified. (1 Cor. 2:2)

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Luke 24:46‑47• ⁴⁶and said to them, Thus it is written that the Christ should suffer and arise from [the] dead the third day;
⁴⁷and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be preached in his name to all the Gentiles beginning at Jerusalem. (Luke 24:46‑47)

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Acts 7:32‑35• ³²I [am] the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and Isaac and Jacob. And Moses trembled, and durst not observe.
³³And the Lord said to him, Loose the sandal of thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.
³⁴I have surely seen the ill-treatment of my people which is in Egypt, and have heard their groaning, and am come down to take them out for myself. And now come, I send thee into Egypt.
³⁵This Moses whom they denied, saying, Who established thee ruler and judge? him hath God sent [both] ruler and deliverer, with an angel's hand that appeared to him in the bush. (Acts 7:32‑35)

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Acts 10:39‑43• ³⁹And we [are] c witnesses of all things which he did both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem, whom also d they slew hanging [him] on a tree,
⁴⁰him God raised on the third day and gave him to be manifest
⁴¹not to all the people, but to witnesses that were chosen before by God, to us which ate and drank with him, after he rose from [the] dead.
⁴²And he charged us to preach to the people and testify that this is he that is ordained by God judge of living and dead.
⁴³To him all the prophets bear witness that every one that believeth on him shall receive remission of sins through his Name. (Acts 10:39‑43)

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2 Cor. 4:5• ⁵For not ourselves do we preach, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves your bondmen for Jesus' sake, (2 Cor. 4:5)

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Gal. 3:1• ¹O senseless Galatians! who bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was portrayed among you as crucified? (Gal. 3:1)

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Gal. 6:14• ¹⁴But be it not for me to boast, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified to me and I to the world. (Gal. 6:14)

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Eph. 3:8• ⁸To me who am less than the least of all saints was this grace given to preach to the nations the unsearchable riches of the Christ, (Eph. 3:8)

unto the Jews.

Isa. 8:14‑15• (Isa. 8:14‑15)

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Matt. 11:6• ⁶{i}and blessed is whosoever shall not be offended in me.{/i} (Matt. 11:6)

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Matt. 13:57• ⁵⁷{i}And they were offended in him. And Jesus said to them, A prophet is not without honour, unless in his country and in his house.{/i} (Matt. 13:57)

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Luke 2:34• ³⁴And Simeon blessed them, {i}and{/i} said to Mary his mother, Lo, this [child] is set for the fall and rising up of many in Israel; and for a sign spoken against (Luke 2:34)

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John 6:53‑66• ⁵³Jesus therefore said to them, Verily, verily, I say to you, Unless ye shall have eaten the flesh of the Son of man and drunk his blood, ye have no life in yourselves.
⁵⁴He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath life eternal; and I will raise him up at the last day;
⁵⁵for my flesh is truly food, and my blood is truly drink.
⁵⁶He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood abideth in me and I in him.
⁵⁷As the living Father sent me, and I live by reason of the Father, he also that eateth me, even he shall live by reason of me.
⁵⁸This is the bread that came down out of heaven. Not as the fathers ate and died: he that eateth this bread shall live forever.
⁵⁹These things said he in [the] synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.
⁶⁰Many therefore of his disciples on having heard said, This word is hard: who can hear it?
⁶¹But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples murmur concerning this, said to them, Doth this offend you?
⁶²If then ye behold the Son of man ascending where he was before?
⁶³It is the Spirit that quickeneth: the flesh profiteth nothing. The words which I have spoken to you are spirit and are life;
⁶⁴but there are some of you who do not believe. For Jesus knew from [the] beginning which were they that should believe not, and which was he that should betray him.
⁶⁵And he said, On this account have I said that no one can come unto me unless it hath been given him from the Father.
⁶⁶From that [time] many of his disciples went away back and walked no more with him. (John 6:53‑66)

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Rom. 9:32‑33• ³²Why? Because not by faith but as by works [of law], for they stumbled at the stone of stumbling,
³³even as it is written, “Behold I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and rock of offence; and he that believeth on him shall not be ashamed.” (Rom. 9:32‑33)

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Gal. 5:11• ¹¹But I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why am I yet persecuted? Then is done away the scandal of the cross. (Gal. 5:11)

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1 Peter 2:8• ⁸and stone of stumbling, and rock of offence; stumbling as they do at the word, being disobedient, unto which also they were appointed. (1 Peter 2:8)

foolishness.

1 Cor. 1:28• ²⁸and the low-born things of the world and those despised God chose, [and] the things that are not, that he might bring to nought the things that are, (1 Cor. 1:28)

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1 Cor. 2:14• ¹⁴But [the] natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he cannot know [them] because they are spiritually examined; (1 Cor. 2:14)

• It is more to say "crucified" than dead; for though both declare the end of man in the flesh, there is the extreme of shame and weakness in the cross beyond all else. (“Notes on 1 Corinthians 1:21-25” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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but *we* preach Christ crucified, to Jews an offencef, and to nations foolishness;

JND Translation Notes

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Lit. "fall-trap," as Matt. 13.57.

W. Kelly Translation

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but we preach Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling-block, and to Gentilesa foolishness,

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The best authorities give here "Gentiles," not "Greeks."