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1 Corinthians 1:19

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17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.

18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.

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

20 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?

21 For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.

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BSB
For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”
KJV
For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
WEB
For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise. I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing.”
ASV
For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And the discernment of the discerning will I bring to nought.
DARBY
For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and set aside the understanding of the understanding ones.
BLB
For it has been written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the intelligence of the intelligent I will set aside.”
ÅB
for det er skrevet: Jeg vil ødelegge de vises visdom, og de forstandiges forstand vil jeg gjøre til intet.
OTB
For skriften sier:
"Jeg vil gjøre de vises visdom til intet,
Og de forstandiges forstand vil jeg tilintetgjøre."
B1930
for det er skrevet: Jeg vil ødelegge de vises visdom, og de forstandiges forstand vil jeg gjøre til intet.

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Cross references

  • Isaiah 29:14

    Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.

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  • Jeremiah 8:9

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

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  • 1 Corinthians 3:19

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

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  • Job 5:12–13

    He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

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  • Isaiah 19:11

    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?

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  • Isaiah 19:3

    And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.

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