1 Corinthians 2:5
Good News Translation
Your faith, then, does not rest on human wisdom but on God's power.

New Revised Standard Version
so that your faith might rest not on human wisdom but on the power of God.

Contemporary English Version
That way you would have faith because of God's power and not because of human wisdom.

New American Bible
so that your faith might rest not on human wisdom but on the power of God.

Douay-Rheims Bible
That your faith might not stand on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

That your faith might not stand on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God.

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1 Corinthians 1:17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not in wisdom of speech, lest the cross of Christ should be made void.

1 Corinthians 3:6 I have planted, Apollo watered: but God gave the increase.

Acts 16:14 And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one that worshipped God, did hear: whose heart the Lord opened to attend to those things which were said by Paul.

2 Corinthians 4:7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency may be of the power of God and not of us.

2 Corinthians 6:7 In the word of truth, in the power of God: by the armour of justice on the right hand and on the left:

Context
Paul's Message by the Spirit's Power
4And my speech and my preaching was not in the persuasive words of human wisdom. but in shewing of the Spirit and power: 5That your faith might not stand on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God. 6Howbeit we speak wisdom among the perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, neither of the princes of this world that come to nought.…
Cross References
2 Corinthians 4:7
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency may be of the power of God and not of us.

2 Corinthians 6:7
In the word of truth, in the power of God: by the armour of justice on the right hand and on the left:

2 Corinthians 12:9
And he said to me: My grace is sufficient for thee: for power is made perfect in infirmity. Gladly therefore will I glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may dwell in me.

1 Corinthians 2:4
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