1 Corinthians 2:6

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Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:

Them

Of the

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Brethren, do not be children in your thinking; yet in evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.

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blameless man, and behold the upright;

For the man of peace will have a

posterity.

Therefore

you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Jesus said to him, “If you wish to be complete, go and sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.”

Finally, brethren, rejoice,

be made complete, be comforted, be like-minded, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.

And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers,

Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus.

Epaphras, who is one of your number, a bondslave of Jesus Christ, sends you his greetings, always laboring earnestly for you in his prayers, that you may stand

perfect and fully assured in all the will of God.

But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil.

For we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body as well.

After you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen and establish you.

Of the

the wisdom which none of the rulers of this age has understood; for if they had understood it they would not have crucified the Lord of glory;

“He makes priests walk barefoot
And overthrows the secure ones.

Why are the nations in an uproar
And the peoples devising a vain thing?

The princes of

Zoan are mere fools;

The advice of Pharaoh’s wisest advisers has become stupid.
How can you men say to Pharaoh,
“I am a son of the wise, a son of ancient kings”?

He it is who reduces rulers to nothing,
Who makes the judges of the earth meaningless.

who by the Holy Spirit, through the mouth of our father David Your servant, said,
‘Why did the

Gentiles rage,

And the peoples devise futile things?