1 Corinthians 1:15–31

¹⁵that no one may say that I have baptised unto my own name. ¹⁶Yes, I baptised also the house of Stephanas; for the rest I know not if I have baptised any other.

¹⁷For Christ has not sent me to baptise, but to preach glad tidings; not in wisdom of word, that the cross of the Christ may not be made vain. ¹⁸For the word of the cross is to them that perish foolishness, but to us that are saved it is God’s power. ¹⁹For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and set aside the understanding of the understanding ones. ²⁰Where is the wise? where scribe? where disputer of this world? has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? ²¹For since, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom has not known God, God has been pleased by the foolishness of the preaching to save those that believe. ²²Since Jews indeed ask for signs, and Greeks seek wisdom; ²³but we preach Christ crucified, to Jews an offence, and to nations foolishness; ²⁴but to those that are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ God’s power and God’s wisdom. ²⁵Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. ²⁶For consider your calling, brethren, that there are not many wise according to flesh, not many powerful, not many high-born. ²⁷But God has chosen the foolish things of the world, that he may put to shame the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world, that he may put to shame the strong things; ²⁸and the ignoble things of the world, and the despised, has God chosen, and things that are not, that he may annul the things that are; ²⁹so that no flesh should boast before God. ³⁰But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who has been made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness, and holiness, and redemption; ³¹that according as it is written, He that boasts, let him boast in the Lord.