²⁰Where is the wise person? Where is the scholar? Where is the persuasive speaker of our time? Hasn’t God turned the wisdom of the world into nonsense? ²¹The world with its wisdom was unable to recognize God in terms of his own wisdom. So God decided to use the nonsense of the Good News we speak to save those who believe. ²²Jews ask for miraculous signs, and Greeks look for wisdom, ²³but our message is that Christ was crucified. This offends Jewish people and makes no sense to people who are not Jewish. ²⁴But to those Jews and Greeks who are called, he is Christ, God’s power and God’s wisdom. ²⁵God’s nonsense is wiser than human wisdom, and God’s weakness is stronger than human strength.

²⁶Brothers and sisters, consider what you were when God called you to be Christians. Not many of you were wise from a human point of view. You were not in powerful positions or in the upper social classes. ²⁷But God chose what the world considers nonsense to put wise people to shame. God chose what the world considers weak to put what is strong to shame. ²⁸God chose what the world considers ordinary and what it despises—what it considers to be nothing—in order to destroy what it considers to be something. ²⁹As a result, no one can brag in God’s presence. ³⁰You are partners with Christ Jesus because of God. Jesus has become our wisdom sent from God, our approval, our holiness, and our ransom from sin. ³¹As Scripture says, “Whoever brags must brag about what the Lord has done.”

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