²⁰Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scholar? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?^* ²¹For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, God decided, through the foolishness of the proclamation, to save those who believe.^* ²²For Jews ask for signs and Greeks desire wisdom, ²³but we proclaim Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to gentiles,^* ²⁴but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. ²⁵For God’s foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God’s weakness is stronger than human strength.

²⁶Consider your own call, brothers and sisters: not many of you were wise by human standards,^e not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth.^* ²⁷But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong;^* ²⁸God chose what is low and despised in the world, things that are not, to abolish things that are, ²⁹so that no one^f might boast in the presence of God.^* ³⁰In contrast, God is why you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,^* ³¹in order that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in^g the Lord.”^*

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Footnotes

eGk according to the flesh
fGk no flesh
gOr of

Cross references

*Isa 33:18; Rom 1:22
*Gal 1:15; 1 Tim 4:16; Heb 7:25
*1 Cor 2:14; Gal 5:11
*Rom 11:29
*Jas 2:5
*Eph 2:9
*Rom 3:24; 1 Cor 6:11; Eph 1:7, 14; 1 Thess 5:23
*Jer 9:23, 24; 2 Cor 10:17