Sentences with phrase «greeks foolishness»
Thomas McPherson, in a cryptic statement, summarizes this point of view: «What to the Jews was a stumbling - block and to the Greeks foolishness is to the logical positivists nonsense.»
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For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom; but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness»
22For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: 23But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; 24But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; 24.
The Scandal Of The Cross «To the Jews a scandal, to the Greeks foolishness, but to those called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.»
Not exact matches
The Gospel - and not just the Gospel, but the fundamental Judeo - Christian belief in a loving personal God - is, according to the apostle, «foolishness to the Greeks.»
If anyone ever wanted to dream up something that would be foolishness to the Greeks, John has outdone him.
These words, put together in a riotous mixture that was foolishness to the Greeks and a stumbling block to the Jews, evoked a disclosure.
As my friend Dennis Venema noted, the Apostle Paul faced a somewhat similar conundrum when he wrote, «Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles.»
Might the gospel occasionally be foolishness to the Greeks and the world's great wisdom traditions?
For instance, Paul talks about it as a stumbling block for Jews and as foolishness to Greeks.
«i am aware that in the Greek it means love less then» so i wont say it is your own interpretation, just rash words from a wino; and rash words is foolishness and a sin
22 Jews demand signs and Greeks look for wisdom, 23 but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, 24 but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.