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For I resolved to know nothing (to be acquainted with nothing, to make a display of the knowledge of nothing, and to be conscious of nothing) among you except Jesus Christ (the Messiah) and Him crucified.

And I was in ([a]passed into a state of) weakness and fear (dread) and great trembling [[b]after I had come] among you.

And my language and my message were not set forth in persuasive (enticing and plausible) words of wisdom, but they were in demonstration of the [Holy] Spirit and power [[c]a proof by the Spirit and power of God, operating on me and stirring in the minds of my hearers the most holy emotions and thus persuading them],

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 2:3 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies in the New Testament.
  2. 1 Corinthians 2:3 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies in the New Testament.
  3. 1 Corinthians 2:4 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.

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