1 Corinthians 1:20

King James Version 1611 (Original)

Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

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  • Rom 1:22 : 22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
  • Job 12:17 : 17 He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.
  • Isa 33:18 : 18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
  • Isa 44:25 : 25 That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;
  • Isa 53:1 : 1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
  • 1 Cor 1:19 : 19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
  • 1 Cor 2:6 : 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:
  • 1 Cor 3:19 : 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
  • Job 12:20 : 20 He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged.
  • Job 12:24 : 24 He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
  • 2 Sam 15:31 : 31 And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O LORD, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.
  • 2 Sam 16:23 : 23 And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he counselled in those days, was as if a man had enquired at the oracle of God: so was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.
  • 2 Sam 17:14 : 14 And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the LORD had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom.
  • 2 Sam 17:23 : 23 And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.
  • Isa 19:11-12 : 11 Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings? 12 Where are they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.

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