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1 Corinthians 2:2
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I decided that while I was with you I would forget about everything except Jesus Christ and his death on the cross.
For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
Nether shewed I my selfe that I knewe eny thinge amonge you save Iesus Christ eve the same that was crucified.
For I determined not to know anything among you, except Yeshua the Messiah, and him crucified.
For while I was with you I resolved to know nothing except Jesus Christ and him crucified.Galatians 6:14; Philippians 3:8;">[xr]
For I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified.
I decided that while I was with you I would forget about everything except Jesus Christ and his death on the cross.
For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
For I determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
For I determined not to know any thing among you save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
For I determined to be utterly ignorant, when among you, of everything except of Jesus Christ, and of Him as having been crucified.
For Y demede not me to kunne ony thing among you, but Crist Jhesu, and hym crucified.
For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.
In fact, while I was with you, I made up my mind to speak only about Jesus Christ, who had been nailed to a cross.
for I made the decision to know nothing [that is, to forego philosophical or theological discussions regarding inconsequential things and opinions while] among you except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified [and the meaning of His redemptive, substitutionary death and His resurrection].
For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
For I had made the decision to have knowledge of nothing among you but only of Jesus Christ on the cross.
for I had decided that while I was with you I would forget everything except Yeshua the Messiah, and even him only as someone who had been executed on a stake as a criminal.
For I did not judge [it well] to know anything among you save Jesus Christ, and *him* crucified.
And I considered myself among you as not knowing any thing unless Jeshu Meshiha, and him also as crucified.
And I did not govern myself among you, as if I knew any thing, except only Jesus Messiah; and him also as crucified.
For I determined not to know any thing amog you, saue Iesus Christ, and him crucified.
For I decided that while I was with you I would forget everything except Jesus Christ, the one who was crucified.
I made up my mind that while I was with you I would speak of nothing except Jesus Christ and of His death on the cross.
For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
For I esteemed not to knowe any thing among you, saue Iesus Christ, and him crucified.
For I did not pretend to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ, and even him crucified.
For I had not determined to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, - and, him, as one who had been crucified!
For I judged not myself to know anything among you, but Jesus Christ: and him crucified.
For I esteemed not to knowe any thyng among you saue Iesus Christe, and hym crucified.
For while I was with you, I made up my mind to forget everything except Jesus Christ and especially his death on the cross.
I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
For I decided not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
For I decided not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ, and Him having been crucified.
for I decided not to know any thing among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified;
For I shewed not forth my selfe amonge you that I knewe eny thinge, saue onely Iesus Christ, euen the sam thate was crucified.
for I did not think I was to have any other knowledge among you, than that of Christ, a crucified saviour.
For I decided to be concerned about nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
I spoke as plainly as the nose on your face. I told you who Jesus was and what he did for all of us when he was strung up on the cross.
For I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified.
For I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
not: 1 Corinthians 1:22-25, John 17:3, Galatians 3:1, Galatians 6:14, Philippians 3:8-10
Reciprocal: Exodus 38:7 - to bear it withal Acts 5:42 - preach Acts 8:5 - preached Acts 8:35 - preached Acts 11:20 - preaching Acts 18:24 - an Romans 1:16 - I am Romans 16:25 - and the 1 Corinthians 1:6 - the 1 Corinthians 1:18 - the preaching 1 Corinthians 1:23 - we 1 Corinthians 15:1 - I declare 1 Corinthians 15:11 - General 2 Corinthians 2:1 - I determined 2 Corinthians 4:5 - Christ 2 Corinthians 6:6 - knowledge Galatians 2:2 - communicated 1 Thessalonians 1:5 - what 1 Peter 1:25 - this Revelation 7:5 - tribe of Juda
Cross-References
Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
The LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed.
The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one which skirts the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.
Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female servant and the stranger may be refreshed.
It is a sign between Me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed."'
but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates, that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.
"If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, From doing your pleasure on My holy day, And call the Sabbath a delight, The holy day of the LORD honorable, And shall honor Him, not doing your own ways, Nor finding your own pleasure, Nor speaking your own words,
But Jesus answered them, "My Father has been working until now, and I have been working."
For He has spoken in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: "And God rested on the seventh day from all His works"; Genesis 2:2">[fn]
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For I determined not to know anything among you,.... This was a resolution the apostle entered into before he came among them, that though he was well versed in human literature, and had a large compass of knowledge in the things of nature, yet would make known nothing else unto them, or make anything else the subject of his ministry,
save Christ, and him crucified: he had a spiritual and experimental knowledge of Christ himself, and which he valued above all things else; and this qualified him to make him known to others; and which knowledge he was very willing and ready to communicate by preaching the Gospel, which is the means of making known Christ as God's salvation to the souls of men; and on this subject he chiefly insisted, and in which he took great delight and pleasure; he made known the things respecting the person of Christ, as that he was God, the Son of God, and truly man. God and man in one person; the things respecting his office, as that he was the Messiah, the mediator, prophet, priest, and King, the head, husband, Saviour, and Redeemer of his church and people; and the things respecting his work as such, and the blessings of grace procured by him; as that justification is by his righteousness, pardon by his blood, peace, reconciliation, and atonement by his sacrifice, and salvation alone and entirely by him. His determination was to preach none but Christ; not himself, nor man; nor the power and purity of human nature, the free will and works of the creature, but to exclude all and everything from being partners with Christ in the business of salvation. This was the doctrine he chose in the first place, and principally, to insist upon, even salvation by Christ, and him, as
crucified: that which was the greatest offence to others was the most delightful to him, because salvation comes through and by the cross of Christ; and he dwelt upon this, and determined to do so; it being most for the glory of Christ, and what was owned for the conversion of sinners, the comfort of distressed minds, and is suitable food for faith, as he knew by his own experience.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
For I determined - I made a resolution. This was my fixed, deliberate purpose when I came there. It was not a matter of accident, or chance, that I made Christ my great and constant theme, but it was my deliberate purpose. It is to be recollected that Paul made this resolution, knowing the special fondness of the Greeks for subtle disquisitions, and for graceful and finished elocution; that he formed it when his own mind, as we may judge from his writings, was strongly inclined by nature to an abstruse and metaphysical kind of discussion, which could not have failed to attract the attention of the acute and subtle reasoners of Greece; and that he made it when he must have been fully aware that the theme which he had chosen to dwell upon would be certain to excite derision and contempt. Yet he formed, and adhered to this resolution, though it might expose him to contempt; and though they might reject and despise his message.
Not to know - The word “know” here εἰδέναι eidenai is used probably in the sense of “attend to, be engaged in, or regard.” I resolved not to give my time and attention while among you to the laws and traditions of the Jews; to your orators, philosophers, and poets; to the beauty of your architecture or statuary; to a contemplation of your customs and laws, but to attend to this only - making known the cross of Christ. The word εἰδω eidō to know, is sometimes thus used. Paul says that he designed that this should be the only thing on which his mind should be fixed; the only object of his attention; the only object there upon which he sought that knowledge should be diffused. Doddridge renders it “appear to know.”
Anything among you - Anything while I was with you. Or, anything that may exist; among you, and that may be objects of interest to you. I resolved to know nothing of it, whatever it might be. The former is probably the correct interpretation.
Save Jesus Christ - Except Jesus Christ. This is the only thing of which I purposed to have any knowledge among you.
And him crucified - Or, “even καί kai him that was crucified.” He resolved not only to make the “Messiah” the grand object of his knowledge and attention there, but even a “crucified” Messiah; to maintain the doctrine that the Messiah was to be crucified for the sins of the world; and that he who had been crucified was in fact the Messiah. See the note at 1 Corinthians 1:23. We may remark here:
(1) That this should be the resolution of every minister of the gospel. This is his business. It is not to be a politician; not to engage in the strifes and controversies of people; it is not to be a good farmer, or scholar merely; not to mingle with his people in festive circles and enjoyments; not to be a man of taste and philosophy, and distinguished mainly for refinement of manners; not to be a profound philosopher or metaphysician, but to make Christ crucified the grand object of his attention, and seek always and everywhere to make him known.
(2) He is not to be ashamed anywhere of the humbling doctrine that Christ was crucified. In this he is to glory. Though the world may ridicule; though philosophers may sneer; though the rich and the frivilous may deride it, yet this is to be the grand object of interest to him, and at no time, and “in no society” is he to be ashamed of it!
(3) It matters not what are the amusements of society around him; that fields of science, of gain, or ambition, are open before him, the minister of Christ is to know Christ and him crucified alone. If he cultivates science, it is to be that he may the more successfully explain and vindicate the gospel. If he becomes in any manner familiar with the works of art, and of taste, it is that he may more successfully show to those who cultivate them, the superior beauty and excellency of the cross. If he studies the plans and the employments of people, it is that he may more successfully meet them in those plans, and more successfully speak to them of the great plan of redemption.
(4) The preaching of the cross is the only kind of preaching that will be attended with success. That which has in it much respecting the divine mission, the dignity, the works, the doctrines, the person, and the atonement of Christ, will be successful. So it was in the time of the apostles; so it was in the Reformation; so it was in the Moravian missions; so it has been in all revivals of religion. There is a power about that kind of preaching which philosophy and human reason have not. “Christ is God’s great ordinance” for the salvation of the world; and we meet the crimes and alleviate the woes of the world, just in proportion as we hold the cross up as appointed to overcome the one, and to pour the balm of consolation into the other.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 1 Corinthians 2:2. I determined not to know any thing among you — Satisfied that the Gospel of God could alone make you wise unto salvation, I determined to cultivate no other knowledge, and to teach nothing but Jesus Christ, and him crucified, as the foundation of all true wisdom, piety, and happiness. No other doctrine shall I proclaim among you.
