Quotes About Truth

How then can they call on the One in whom they have not believed? And how can they believe in the One of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone to preach?

But not all of them welcomed the good news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our message?”

Consequently, faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.

But I ask, did they not hear? Indeed they did: “Their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.”

And what was the divine reply to him? “I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”

Love must be sincere. Detest what is evil; cling to what is good.

So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God.

For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the circumcised on behalf of Godís truth, to confirm the promises made to the patriarchs,

Rather, as it is written: “Those who were not told about Him will see, and those who have not heard will understand.”

For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.

but now revealed and made known through the writings of the prophets by the command of the eternal God, in order to lead all nations to the obedience that comes from faith—

to the only wise God be glory forever through Jesus Christ! Amen.

because our testimony about Christ was confirmed in you.

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with words of wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.

For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”

Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know Him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe.

Jews demand signs and Greeks search for wisdom,

but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.

so that no one may boast in His presence.

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

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

My message and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spiritís power,

so that your faith would not rest on menís wisdom, but on Godís power.