1 Corinthians 1:20

KJV1611 – Modern English

Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

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  • Rom 1:22 : 22 Professing to be wise, they became fools,
  • Job 12:17 : 17 He leads counselors away plundered, and makes the judges fools.
  • Isa 33:18 : 18 Your heart will meditate on terror. Where is the scribe? Where is the receiver? Where is he who counts the towers?
  • Isa 44:25 : 25 Who frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; who turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish;
  • Isa 53:1 : 1 Who has 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 However, we speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing.
  • 1 Cor 3:19 : 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He catches the wise in their own craftiness.
  • Job 12:20 : 20 He removes the speech of the trusted, and takes away the understanding of the aged.
  • Job 12:24 : 24 He takes away the heart of the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes 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 you, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.
  • 2 Sam 16:23 : 23 And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he counseled in those days, was as if a man had inquired 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 donkey, and arose, and went home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in his father's sepulchre.
  • Isa 19:11-12 : 11 Surely the princes of Zoan are fools; the counsel of the wise counselors of Pharaoh has become brutish. How can you say to Pharaoh, 'I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?' 12 Where are they? Where are your wise men? Let them tell you now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts has purposed against Egypt.

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    17For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with the wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect.

    18For the preaching of the cross is to those who perish foolishness; but to us who are saved it is the power of God.

    19For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.

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    18Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

    19For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He catches the wise in their own craftiness.

    20And again, The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.

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    21For since in the wisdom of God the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of preaching to save those who believe.

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

    23But we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block, and to the Greeks foolishness;

    24But to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.

    25Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

    26For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:

    27But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;

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    20For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

    21Because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

    22Professing to be wise, they became fools,

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

    6However, we speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing.

    7But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory,

    8which none of the rulers of this world knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

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    20From where then comes wisdom? And where is the place of understanding?

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    9The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?

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    12But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding?

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    14But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

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    24Wisdom is in the sight of him who has understanding, but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.

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    20Wisdom cries out outside; she raises her voice in the streets;

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    8The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

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    1The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, they have done abominable deeds, there is none who does good.

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    22For my people are foolish, they have not known me; they are senseless children, and they have no understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

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    6A scorner seeks wisdom and does not find it, but knowledge is easy to him who understands.

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    19For you gladly bear with fools, seeing that you yourselves are wise.

  • Prov 19:3
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    3The foolishness of man perverts his way, and his heart frets against the LORD.

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    34For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor?

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    30But of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God—and righteousness and sanctification and redemption—

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    4In whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of those who do not believe, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

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