Resolved

One of my favorite paragraphs in the New Testament is:

“And so it was with me, brothers and sisters. When I came to
you, I did not come with eloquence or human 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. I came to you in weakness with great fear and
trembling. My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words,
but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, so that your faith might not
rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power” (1 Corinthians 2:1-5).

Notice the word resolved. The KJV says determined.
The definition is “to fix conclusively, decidedly, and authoritatively.”

What was this resolve? “To know nothing while I was with you
except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.” Apparently, Paul was not into small
talk and inane conversations.

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