(1 Corinthians 1:16-31) .... 17For Christ dispatched me, not to go baptizing, but to go declaring the good news, not with wisdom of speech, that the torture stake of the Christ should not be made useless. 18For the speech about the torture stake is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is God’s power. 19For it is written: “I will make the wisdom of the wise [men] perish, and the intelligence of the intellectual [men] I will shove aside.” 20Where is the wise man? Where the scribe? Where the debater of this system of things? Did not God make the wisdom of the world foolish? 21For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom did not get to know God, God saw good through the foolishness of what is preached to save those believing. 22For both the Jews ask for signs and the Greeks look for wisdom; 23but we preach Christ impaled, to the Jews a cause for stumbling but to the nations foolishness; 24however, to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25Because a foolish thing of God is wiser than men, and a weak thing of God is stronger than men. 26For YOU behold his calling of YOU, brothers, that not many wise in a fleshly way were called, not many powerful, not many of noble birth; 27but God chose the foolish things of the world, that he might put the wise men to shame; and God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put the strong things to shame; 28and God chose the ignoble things of the world and the things looked down upon, the things that are not, that he might bring to nothing the things that are, 29in order that no flesh might boast in the sight of God. 30But it is due to him that YOU are in union with Christ Jesus, who has become to us wisdom from God, also righteousness and sanctification and release by ransom; 31that it may be just as it is written: “He that boasts, let him boast in Jehovah.”
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