1 Corinthians 1:18 Parallel Translations

The message about the cross is nonsense to those who are being destroyed, but it is God's power to us who are being saved.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.

ASV:

For the word of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us who are saved it is the power of God.

BBE:

For the word of the cross seems foolish to those who are on the way to destruction; but to us who are on the way to salvation it is the power of God.

DBY:

For the word of the cross is to them that perish foolishness, but to us that are saved it is God's power.

ERV:

For the word of the cross is to them that are perishing foolishness; but unto us which are being saved it is the power of God.

WEY:

For the Message of the Cross is foolishness to those who are on the way to perdition, but it is the power of God to those whom He is saving.

WBS:

For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish, foolishness; but to us who are saved, it is the power of God.

WEB:

For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are saved it is the power of God.

YLT:

for the word of the cross to those indeed perishing is foolishness, and to us -- those being saved -- it is the power of God,

1 Corinthians 1:18 Cross References

XREF:

Acts 2:47 praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord was adding to their number day by day those who were being saved.

Romans 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

1 Corinthians 1:21 For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not come to know God, God was well-pleased through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe.

1 Corinthians 1:23 but we preach Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling block and to Gentiles foolishness,

1 Corinthians 1:24 but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.

1 Corinthians 2:14 But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised.

1 Corinthians 4:10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are prudent in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are distinguished, but we are without honor.

2 Corinthians 2:15 For we are a fragrance of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing;

2 Corinthians 4:3 And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing,

2 Thessalonians 2:10 and with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

1:18 For the {m} preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the {n} power of God.
(m) The preaching of Christ crucified, or the type of speech which we use.
(n) It is that in which he declares his marvellous power in saving his elect, which would not so evidently appear if it depended upon any help of man, for if it did man might attribute that to himself which is to be attributed only to the cross of Christ.

PNT:

1:18 The preaching of the cross. The gospel of a Crucified Savior.
Unto them that perish. Those who are unregenerate.
Foolishness. The Greek philosopher and the Jewish scribe scoffed at the thought of a Savior who had been crucified. They held that his crucifixion proved that he was not divine.
Unto us who are saved. There are two sections of mankind--the unsaved and the saved. To the first, the cross is folly; to the second, the gospel of the Crucified One comes as the power of God. See Ro 1:16. To the unsaved, the cross is a pillar of cloud; to the saved, a pillar of light.

WES:

1:18 To them that perish - By obstinately rejecting the only name whereby they can be saved. But to us who are saved - Now saved from our sins, and in the way to everlasting salvation, it is the great instrument of the power of God.

MHC:

1:17-25 Paul had been bred up in Jewish learning; but the plain preaching of a crucified Jesus, was more powerful than all the oratory and philosophy of the heathen world. This is the sum and substance of the gospel. Christ crucified is the foundation of all our hopes, the fountain of all our joys. And by his death we live. The preaching of salvation for lost sinners by the sufferings and death of the Son of God, if explained and faithfully applied, appears foolishness to those in the way to destruction. The sensual, the covetous, the proud, and ambitious, alike see that the gospel opposes their favourite pursuits. But those who receive the gospel, and are enlightened by the Spirit of God, see more of God's wisdom and power in the doctrine of Christ crucified, than in all his other works. God left a great part of the world to follow the dictates of man's boasted reason, and the event has shown that human wisdom is folly, and is unable to find or retain the knowledge of God as the Creator. It pleased him, by the foolishness of preaching, to save them that believe. By the foolishness of preaching; not by what could justly be called foolish preaching. But the thing preached was foolishness to wordly-wise men. The gospel ever was, and ever will be, foolishness to all in the road to destruction. The message of Christ, plainly delivered, ever has been a sure touchstone by which men may learn what road they are travelling. But the despised doctrine of salvation by faith in a crucified Saviour, God in human nature, purchasing the church with his own blood, to save multitudes, even all that believe, from ignorance, delusion, and vice, has been blessed in every age. And the weakest instruments God uses, are stronger in their effects, than the strongest men can use. Not that there is foolishness or weakness in God, but what men consider as such, overcomes all their admired wisdom and strength.

CONC:

Cross Destruction Dying Folly Foolish Foolishness God's Indeed Message Perdition Perish Perishing Power Preaching Salvation Saved Saving Seems

Cross Destruction Dying Folly Foolish Foolishness God's Indeed Message Perdition Perish Perishing Power Preaching Salvation Saved Saving Seems Way Word

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