4My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power,


In Context

1 When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with eloquence or superior wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.

2 For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

3 I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling.

4 My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power,

5 so that your faith might not rest on men's wisdom, but on God's power.

6 We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.

1st Corinthians 2:4 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:4And my speech and my preaching [was] not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:4And my speech and my preaching was not in the persuasive words of human wisdom, but in shewing of the Spirit and power;

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:4And my speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:4and my word and my preaching, not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:4And my speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:4And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit, and of power:

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:4My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:4and my word and my preaching was not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power —

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:4And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: