19 For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”
1 Corinthians 1:19
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1 Corinthians 3:18–20
18 Let no one deceive himself. If any of you thinks he is wise in this age, he should become a fool, so that he may become wise. 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness.” 20 And again, “Th…
1 Corinthians 1:26–28
26 Brothers, consider the time of your calling: Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were powerful; not many were of noble birth. 27 But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame th…
Isaiah 29:13–15
13 Therefore the Lord said: “These people draw near to Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is but rules taught by men. 14 Therefore I will again confound these people with wonder upon wonder. The w…
1 Corinthians 2:5–7
5 so that your faith would not rest on men’s wisdom, but on God’s power. 6 Among the mature, however, we speak a message of wisdom—but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. 7 No, we speak of the mysterious and hidden wisd…
Job 32:12–14
12 I paid you full attention. But no one proved Job wrong; not one of you rebutted his arguments. 13 So do not claim, ‘We have found wisdom; let God, not man, refute him.’ 14 But Job has not directed his words against me, and I will not answer him with your arguments.
1 Corinthians 2:15–16
15 The spiritual man judges all things, but he himself is not subject to anyone’s judgment. 16 “For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
Job 5:12–14
12 He thwarts the schemes of the crafty, so that their hands find no success. 13 He catches the wise in their craftiness, and sweeps away the plans of the cunning. 14 They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.
Romans 1:21–23
21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools, 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God…
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