Acts 18:9-16; Proverbs 17:27; 1 Corinthians 2:1-8

Acts 18:9-16

9 And the Lord said to Paul one night in a vision, "Do not be afraid, but speak and do not be silent;

10 for I am with you, and no man shall attack you to harm you; for I have many people in this city."

11 And he stayed a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.

12 But when Gallio was proconsul of Acha'ia, the Jews made a united attack upon Paul and brought him before the tribunal,

13 saying, "This man is persuading men to worship God contrary to the law."

14 But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, "If it were a matter of wrongdoing or vicious crime, I should have reason to bear with you, O Jews;

15 but since it is a matter of questions about words and names and your own law, see to it yourselves; I refuse to be a judge of these things."

16 And he drove them from the tribunal.

Proverbs 17:27

27 He who restrains his words has knowledge, and he who has a cool spirit is a man of understanding.

1 Corinthians 2:1-8

1 When I came to you, brethren, I did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God in lofty words or wisdom.

2 For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

3 And I was with you in weakness and in much fear and trembling;

4 and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

5 that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.

6 Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away.

7 But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glorification.

8 None of the rulers of this age understood this; for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.