1 Corinthians 2:4

Paul's Approach To Ministry In Corinth

³ And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. ⁴ And my speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power; ⁵ that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

From God

Holy Spirit

Manifestation of the Spirit

Persuasive Words

Power of God

Power of the Spirit

Spiritual Gifts

By The Spirit

Enticing Words

Plausible Words

Corinth

No

Paul

Romans 15:19

in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy Spirit; so that from Jerusalem and around as far as Illyricum, I have fully dispensed the Gospel of Christ;

1 Corinthians 4:20

for the Kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.

1 Corinthians 1:17

For Christ sent me not to immerse, but to proclaim the Gospel; not in wisdom of speech, lest the cross of Christ should be made void.

1 Corinthians 2:1

And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God;

1 Corinthians 2:13

Which things also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit; combining spiritual things with spiritual.

1 Thessalonians 1:5

because our Gospel came not to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance; even as ye know what manner of men we became toward you, for your sake.

2 Peter 1:16

For, not as having followed after cunningly-devised stories, did we make known to you the power and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, but as having been made spectators of His majesty.

John 16:8-15

And, having come, He will convict the world respecting sin, and righteousness, and judgment:

Acts 20:27

for I shrank not from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

Acts 26:28

And Agrippa said to Paul, "In a small degree you are persuading me to make a Christian!"

Romans 16:18

For those who are such are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own belly; and, through their kind words and flattering speeches, they beguile the hearts of the simple.

Galatians 1:10

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I seeking to please men? If still I were pleasing men, I should not be Christ's servant.

Colossians 2:4

This I say, that no one may delude you with persuasive speech;

1 Peter 1:12

to whom it was revealed that, not to themselves, but to you they were ministering them; which things now were reported to you through those who proclaimed the Gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent forth from Heaven; into which things angels desire to look carefully.

2 Peter 2:18

For, uttering great swelling words of vanity, they entice, in desires of the flesh, by their lasciviousness, those just escaping from those who live in error;