1st Corinthians

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1st Corinthians Chapter 1 verse 22 Holy Bible

ASV 1stCorinthians 1:22

Seeing that Jews ask for signs, and Greeks seek after wisdom:
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BBE 1stCorinthians 1:22

Seeing that the Jews make request for signs, and the Greeks are looking for knowledge:
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DARBY 1stCorinthians 1:22

Since Jews indeed ask for signs, and Greeks seek wisdom;
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KJV 1stCorinthians 1:22

For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
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WBT 1stCorinthians 1:22

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WEB 1stCorinthians 1:22

For Jews ask for signs, Greeks seek after wisdom,
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YLT 1stCorinthians 1:22

Since also Jews ask a sign, and Greeks seek wisdom,
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 22. - Jews ask for signs; rather, Jews demand signs. This had been their incessant demand during our Lord's ministry; nor would they be content with any sign short of a sign from heaven (Matthew 12:38: 16:1; John 2:18; John 4:48, etc.). This had been steadily refused them by Christ, who wished them rather to see spiritual signs (Luke 17:20, 21). Greeks seek after wisdom. St. Paul at Athens had found himself surrounded with Stoics and Epicureans, and the same new thing which every one was looking for mainly took the shape of philosophic novelties (Acts 17:21).

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(22) For.--This is a further unfolding of the fact of the simplicity of the preaching of the Cross. It pandered neither to Jewish-minded persons (not in the Greek "the Jews," "the Gentiles," but simply "Jews," "Gentiles") who desired visible portents to support the teaching, nor to those of Greek taste who desired an actual and clear philosophic proof of it. (See Matthew 12:38; Mark 8:11; Luke 11:16; John 4:48.)