1 Corinthians 1:19

Webster's Bible (1833)

For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing."

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 29:14 : 14 therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.
  • Jer 8:9 : 9 The wise men are disappointed, they are dismayed and taken: behold, they have rejected the word of Yahweh; and what manner of wisdom is in them?
  • 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 5:12-13 : 12 He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands can't perform their enterprise. 13 He takes the wise in their own craftiness; The counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
  • Isa 19:11 : 11 The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish; the counsel of the wisest counselors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how do you say to Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
  • Isa 19:3 : 3 The spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst of it; and I will destroy the counsel of it: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to those who have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.

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  • 1 Cor 1:20-31
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    20Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Hasn't God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

    21For 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.

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

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

    24but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is 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, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble;

    27but 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;

    28and God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that are not, that he might bring to nothing the things that are:

    29that no flesh should boast before God.

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

    31that, according as it is written, "He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord."

  • 1 Cor 3:18-20
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    18Let 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.

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

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

  • 1 Cor 1:17-18
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    17For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Gospel--not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ wouldn't be made void.

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

  • 1 Cor 2:4-8
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    4My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

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

    6We 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.

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

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

  • Rom 1:22
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    22Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

  • Isa 29:14
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    14therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.

  • Obad 1:8
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    8"Won't I in that day," says Yahweh, "destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mountain of Esau?

  • 1 Cor 2:1-2
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    1When I came to you, brothers, I didn't come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.

    2For I determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

  • Jer 8:9
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    9The wise men are disappointed, they are dismayed and taken: behold, they have rejected the word of Yahweh; and what manner of wisdom is in them?

  • Isa 44:25
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    25who frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; who turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish;

  • Job 5:13
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    13He takes the wise in their own craftiness; The counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

  • Ps 33:10
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    10Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

  • 1 Cor 2:14
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    14Now 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.

  • Prov 19:3
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    3The foolishness of man subverts his way; His heart rages against Yahweh.

  • Prov 14:8
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    8The wisdom of the prudent is to think about his way, But the folly of fools is deceit.

  • 1 Cor 4:10
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    10We 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.

  • 2 Cor 11:16-17
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    16I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little.

    17That which I speak, I don't speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.

  • Prov 1:32
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    32For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.

  • Gal 6:14
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    14But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

  • Isa 5:21
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    21Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, And prudent in their own sight!

  • Rom 1:19
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    19because that which is known of God is revealed in them, for God revealed it to them.

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

  • Prov 14:33
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    33Wisdom rests in the heart of one who has understanding, And is even made known in the inward part of fools.

  • Prov 18:2
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    2A fool has no delight in understanding, But only in revealing his own opinion.

  • Eccl 2:16
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    16For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory for ever, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool!

  • Prov 21:30
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    30There is no wisdom nor understanding Nor counsel against Yahweh.

  • Eph 3:10
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    10to the intent that now through the assembly the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places,

  • Prov 26:5
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    5Answer a fool according to his folly, Lest he be wise in his own eyes.

  • Prov 8:12
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    12"I, wisdom, have made prudence my dwelling. Find out knowledge and discretion.

  • 2 Cor 11:12
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    12But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an occasion, that in which they boast, they may be found even as we.