1 Corinthians 2:4

2:4 My conversation and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

1 Corinthians 2:13

2:13 And we speak about these things, not with words taught us by human wisdom, but with those taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual things to spiritual people. ¹ 

1 Corinthians 3:1

Immaturity and Self-deception

3:1 So, brothers and sisters, ²  I could not speak to you as spiritual people, but instead as people of the flesh, ³  as infants in Christ.

1 Corinthians 3:7

3:7 So neither the one who plants counts for anything, ⁴  nor the one who waters, but God who causes the growth.

1 Corinthians 4:3-4

4:3 So for me, it is a minor matter that I am judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself. 4:4 For I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not acquitted because of this. The one who judges me is the Lord.

1 Corinthians 5:8

5:8 So then, let us celebrate the festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of vice and evil, but with the bread without yeast, the bread of sincerity and truth. ⁵ 

1 Corinthians 7:21

7:21 Were you called as a slave? ⁶  Do not worry about it. But if indeed you are able to be free, make the most of the opportunity.

1 Corinthians 9:21

9:21 To those free from the law I became like one free from the law (though I am not free from God’s law but under the law of Christ) to gain those free from the law.

1 Corinthians 10:5

10:5 But God was not pleased with most of them, for they were cut down in the wilderness.

¹ tn Or “combining spiritual things with spiritual words” (i.e., words the Spirit gives, as just described).

¹ tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:10.

² tn Grk “fleshly [people]”; the Greek term here is σαρκινός (BDAG 914 s.v. 1).

¹ tn Grk “is anything.”

¹ tn Grk “with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.”

¹ tn Traditionally, “servant” (KJV), though almost all modern translations render the word as “slave” here.