1 Corinthians 1:20

World English Bible (2000)

Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Hasn't God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

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Referenced Verses

  • Rom 1:22 : 22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
  • Job 12:17 : 17 He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.
  • Isa 33:18 : 18 Your heart will meditate on the terror. Where is he who counted? Where is he who weighed? Where is he who counted 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 message? To whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed?
  • 1 Cor 1:19 : 19 For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing."
  • 1 Cor 2:6 : 6 We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown; yet a wisdom not 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 has taken the wise in their craftiness."
  • Job 12:20 : 20 He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders.
  • Job 12:24 : 24 He takes away understanding from 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 Someone told David, saying, "Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom." David said, "Yahweh, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness."
  • 2 Sam 16:23 : 23 The counsel of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, was as if a man inquired at the oracle of God: so was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.
  • 2 Sam 17:14 : 14 Absalom and all the men of Israel said, "The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel." For Yahweh had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Yahweh might bring evil on Absalom.
  • 2 Sam 17:23 : 23 When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, and arose, and went home, to his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.
  • Isa 19:11-12 : 11 The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish. The counsel of the wisest counselors of Pharaoh has become stupid. How do you say to Pharaoh, "I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?" 12 Where then are your wise men? Let them tell you now; and let them know what Yahweh of Armies has purposed concerning Egypt.

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    18 For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are saved it is the power of God.

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

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

    20 And again, "The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise, that it is worthless."

  • 1 Cor 1:21-28
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    21 For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn't know God, it was God's good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.

    22 For Jews ask for signs, Greeks seek after wisdom,

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

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

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

    26 For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble;

    27 but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong;

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    20 For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse.

    21 Because, knowing God, they didn't glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

    22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

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    5 that your faith wouldn't stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

    6 We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown; yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing.

    7 But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory,

    8 which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn't have crucified the Lord of glory.

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    20 Where then does wisdom come from? Where is the place of understanding?

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

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

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    10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.

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    16 Why is there money in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, since he has no understanding?

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    14 Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

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    24 Wisdom is before the face of one who has understanding, but the eyes of a fool wander to the ends of the earth.

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    3 How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!

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

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

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    33 Wisdom rests in the heart of one who has understanding, and is even made known in the inward part of fools.

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    22 "For my people are foolish, they don't know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but to do good they have no knowledge."

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  • 2 Cor 11:19
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    19 For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise.

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    3 The foolishness of man subverts his way; his heart rages against Yahweh.

  • Rom 11:34
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    34 "For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?"

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    30 But of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

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    4 in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

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    16 I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little.

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