1 Corinthians 2:1 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. ”

• 1 Corinthians 2:1 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  And I, brethren - Keeping up the tender and affectionate style of address. When I came unto you - When I came at first to preach the gospel at Corinth. Acts 18:1 ff. Came not with excell...

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• 1 Corinthians 2:1 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  And (1) I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the (a) testimony of God. (1) He returns to ( 1 Corinthians 1:17 ), that is to say, to hi...

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• 1 Corinthians 2:1 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  1 Corinthians 1:18 to 1 Corinthians 2:5 . The Cross, Folly to the World, is the Power and Wisdom of God. Paul now explains and justifies 1 Corinthians 1:17 b , which to Greek readers must hav...

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• 1 Corinthians 2:1 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  to . unto. App-104. not . App-105. with . according to. App-104. excellency . pre-eminence. Greek. huperoche. Only here and 1 Timothy 2:2 . speech . word. App-121. declaring . App-121....

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• 1 Corinthians 2:1 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  1. And I, when I came Paul having begun to speak of his own method of teaching, had straightway fallen into a discussion as to the nature of gospel preaching generally. Now again he returns...

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• 1 Corinthians 2:1 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. When I came to you - Acting suitably to my mission, which was to preach...

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• 1 Corinthians 2:1 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  And I, brethren, &c.— As a further argument to keep them from glorying in their leaders, St. Paul tells the Corinthians, that, as the preachers of the Gospel, of God's choosing, were mean and i...

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• 1 Corinthians 2:1 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. And I - So I, I also, as one of the 'foolish, weak, and despised...

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• 1 Corinthians 2:1 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  When I came ] i.e. on his first visit some five years before ( Acts 18:1-11 ). Not with excellency of speech or of wisdom ] St. Paul did not try to win the Corinthians to the gospel either by the e...

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• 1 Corinthians 2:1 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  II. (1) And I. — The Apostle now proceeds to show how he personally, in both the matter and manner of his teaching at Corinth, had acted in accordance with those great principles which he has al...

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• 1 Corinthians 2:1 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Chapter 4 THE FOOLISHNESS OF PREACHING In the preceding section of this Epistle Paul introduced the subject which was prominent in his thoughts as he wrote: the divided state of the Corinthian C...

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• 1 Corinthians 2:1 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  God's Glory in Men's Weakness 1 Corinthians 1:26-31 ; 1 Corinthians 2:1-5 Like the sons of Jesse before Samuel, so do the successive regiments on which the world relies pass before Christ. The...

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• 1 Corinthians 2:1 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The apostle reminds the Corinthian Christians that when he first came to them he did not come with excellency of speech, or of wisdom, but with "the Word of the Cross." Yet there must be no foolish i...

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• 1 Corinthians 2:1 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  CONTENTS The Apostle enters upon the Relation of his Ministry, which he had exercised among the Corinthians. He reminds them, that he passed by all human Eloquence in his Discourses before them, and...

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• 1 Corinthians 2:1 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And I, brethren, when I came to you,.... This account the apostle gives of himself is occasioned, either by what he had said in the latter part of the preceding chapter, concerning the choice God has...

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• 1 Corinthians 2:1 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. Ver. 1. Not with excellency ] St Paul's speech was neque lecta, neq...

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• 1 Corinthians 2:1 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  And I, brethren , &c. As if he had said, I have been showing that God is wont to call and convert persons to himself by unlikely and contemptible means; and that his design in the gospel is of a...

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• 1 Corinthians 2:1 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  It was through Paul that the Corinthians had been brought to God; and he here reminds them that when he first came there, he had avoided the use of high-sounding speech and intellectual arguments: it...

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• 1 Corinthians 2:1 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Apostle's Ministry. A. D.  57.       1 And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excelle...

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• 1 Corinthians 2:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  1 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 2 1 Corinthians 2:1-5 Paul declareth that he used not human learning and eloquence in preaching the gospel to his converts, that their faith, being built on the testimony of...

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• 1 Corinthians 2:1 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Paul Now Stresses His Own Example To Demonstrate That the Gospel in its Successful Presentation by Him Had Not Been with Eloquence and Wisdom, But In Power (2:1-8). ‘And I, brothers, when I came t...

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• 1 Corinthians 2:1 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES ( For many points, see Homiletic Analysis .) 1 Corinthians 2:1 . I .—Slightly emphatic; q.d . “I was myself also in complete harmony of spirit and method with the lines of God’s...

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• 1 Corinthians 2:1 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  1 Corinthians 2:2 . I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ and him crucified. That is, to know him in the glory of his person, as revealed in the oracles of truth. “I and...

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• 1 Corinthians 2:1 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION 1 Corinthians 2:1-46 St. Paul's own method. 1 Corinthians 2:1 And I; "I too;" I in accordance with God's method. When I came to you. The date of his first visit was...

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• 1 Corinthians 2:1 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.

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• 1 Corinthians 2:1 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 1:17 ; 1 Corinthians 1:6 ; 1 Corinthians 2:13 ; 1 Corinthians 2:4 ; 1 John 4:14 ; 1 John 5:11-13 ; 1 Timothy 1:11 ; 2 Corinthians 10:10 ; 2 Corinthians 11:6 ; 2 Thessalonians...

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• 1 Corinthians 2:1 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  Paul the Preacher 1 Corinthians 2:1-16 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The Apostle, Paul, now is speaking of the kind of an entrance he had among the Corinthians. He had been very happy to move among them...

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• 1 Corinthians 2:1 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  And I accordingly came to you, not with loftiness of speech or of wisdom — I did not affect either deep wisdom or eloquence. Declaring the testimony of God — What God gave me to testify concerning...

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