1 Corinthians 2

Which worship songs are based on 1 Corinthians 2?

  1. Calvary's Enough — Brooke Ligertwood (2023) 1 Corinthians 2:2

    The singer’s deliberate choice to limit her knowledge to the crucified Christ closely restates Paul’s declared resolve in Corinth.

  2. The Power Of The Cross/When I Survey The Wondrous Cross - Live — Keith & Kristyn Getty (2013) 1 Corinthians 2:8

    Watts's description of divine royalty dying on the cross adapts Paul's distinctive identification of the crucified Christ as the Lord of glory.

  3. God Is Up to Something — Janet Paschal (2012) 1 Corinthians 2:9

    The bridge closely adapts Paul's statement that human sight and hearing have not perceived what God has prepared for those who love him. This is a direct textual connection, supporting the song's assurance that God's preparation exceeds human perception.

  4. Scars in the Hands of Jesus — Ernie Haase & Signature Sound (2013) 1 Corinthians 2:9

    The opening closely adapts Paul's description of what human eyes and ears have not perceived concerning God's provision. The song applies this language specifically to anticipation of heaven.

  5. Rhythms of Grace - Live — Hillsong UNITED (2012) 1 Corinthians 2:9

    The bridge closely follows Paul's sequence of sight, hearing, and human understanding reaching their limits. It redirects the passage's description of what God has prepared for those who love him toward the immeasurability of divine love and the worship God deserves.

  6. Finish What You Started — Fellowship Creative (2013) 1 Corinthians 2:9

    The opening closely adapts Paul's threefold description of sight, hearing, and human understanding being unable to grasp what God has prepared for those who love him.

  7. Anything Yet — Cade Thompson (2021) 1 Corinthians 2:9

    The repeated emphasis on realities not yet visible and what God has in store resembles Paul's language about what human eyes have not seen and what God has prepared.

  8. Worth Fighting For — Brian Courtney Wilson (2015) 1 Corinthians 2:9

    The chorus closely adapts Paul's description of what human eyes and ears have not perceived concerning what God has prepared for those who love him.

  9. Turbo Style — Beckah Shae (2014) 1 Corinthians 2:9

    The bridge closely reproduces Paul’s three-part description of what sight, hearing, and human imagination have not apprehended. The song applies that wording to shared expectancy about possibilities beyond ordinary perception.

  10. I Am — Kirk Franklin (2011) 1 Corinthians 2:9

    The bridge closely adapts Paul's statement about what human eyes have not seen and what God has prepared for those who love him.

  11. Perfect Work — Joyous Celebration (2014) 1 Corinthians 2:9

    The chorus reproduces Paul's paired references to the limitations of sight and hearing concerning what God has prepared. The song adapts the passage into reassurance about God's future work in the believer.

  12. Follow You — ICF Worship (2014) 1 Corinthians 2:9-10

    The prayer to perceive unseen realities and discover what God has prepared closely echoes Paul's description of realities beyond ordinary perception that God prepares for those who love him and reveals through the Spirit.

  13. Worthy Of Your Name - Radio Version — Passion, Sean Curran (2017) 1 Corinthians 2:9

    The second verse closely reproduces Paul’s paired language about realities beyond human sight and hearing, which Paul himself introduces from Scripture.

  14. Not Done Yet — Vertical Worship (2020) 1 Corinthians 2:9

    The chorus closely reproduces Paul’s description of what human sight, hearing, and understanding cannot anticipate about what God has prepared. Paul’s wording itself draws on Isaiah 64:4.

  15. I'm Getting Ready - Live — Tasha Cobbs Leonard (2018) 1 Corinthians 2:9

    The opening sensory formula closely reproduces Paul’s description of realities beyond human sight, hearing, and imagination. The song applies that language specifically to anticipated divine blessing.

  16. This Is Not the End — Big Daddy Weave (2025) 1 Corinthians 2:9

    The song references the idea that no one has seen or heard the wonders God has prepared for those who love Him, directly quoting a well-known passage from 1 Corinthians.

  17. Worthy Of Your Name - Studio — Passion, Sean Curran (2017) 1 Corinthians 2:9

    The song closely reproduces Paul’s statement that human eyes and ears had not perceived what God had prepared, adapting it to the revelation of God in Christ.

  18. F.A.V.O.R — Kirk Franklin (2019) 1 Corinthians 2:9

    The outro uses the verse's paired language about sight and hearing to present God's provision as exceeding present human perception. Although abbreviated, the wording unmistakably invokes Paul's scriptural citation.

  19. Highly Favored — Mike Teezy (2024) 1 Corinthians 2:9

    The opening description of what human sight and hearing have not perceived directly draws from Paul's account of what God has prepared.

  20. I Believe — Phil Wickham (2023) 1 Corinthians 2:9

    The coordinated references to sight, hearing, and human imagination clearly rearrange Paul’s description of what God has prepared beyond ordinary human perception.

  21. I’m Getting Ready — Tasha Cobbs Leonard (2017) 1 Corinthians 2:9

    The song repeatedly adopts Paul’s description of realities beyond what human sight, hearing, or imagination can apprehend, applying it to anticipated divine blessing.

  22. Life — Beckah Shae (2010) 1 Corinthians 2:9

    The bridge reproduces the paired references to the limitations of human sight and hearing in Paul’s description of what God has prepared. This wording points specifically to Paul’s formulation rather than merely to unseen possibilities.

  23. Brainwashed — Da’ T.R.U.T.H. (2011) 1 Corinthians 2:16

    The third verse directly adopts Paul's distinctive description of believers sharing Christ's understanding, presenting that spiritual understanding as something precious to guard.

1 Corinthians 2 (King James Version)

1 And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.

2 For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

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

4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:

5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:

7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:

8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.

12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.

16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.