1 Corinthians 1:15–31

¹⁵Lest any should say that you were baptized in my name.

¹⁶And I baptized also the household of Stephanus. Besides, I know not whether I baptized any other.

¹⁷For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not in wisdom of speech, lest the cross of Christ should be made void.

¹⁸For the word of the cross, to them indeed that perish, is foolishness: but to them that are saved, that is, to us, it is the power of God.

¹⁹For it is written: I will destroy the wisdom of the wise: and the prudence of the prudent I will reject.

²⁰Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this world? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

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

²²For both the Jews require signs: and the Greeks seek after wisdom.

²³But we preach Christ crucified: unto the Jews indeed a stumblingblock, and unto the Gentiles foolishness:

²⁴But unto them that are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ, the power of God and the wisdom of God.

²⁵For the foolishness of God is wiser than men: and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

²⁶For see your vocation, brethren, that there are not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble.

²⁷But the foolish things of the world hath God chosen, that he may confound the wise: and the weak things of the world hath God chosen, that he may confound the strong.

²⁸And the base things of the world and the things that are contemptible, hath God chosen: and things that are not, that he might bring to nought things that are:

²⁹That no flesh should glory in his sight.

³⁰But of him are you in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom and justice and sanctification and redemption:

³¹That, as it is written: He that glorieth may glory in the Lord.