riversident - 1Corinthians:1:18-2:5

riversident@1Corinthians:1:18 @ For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

riversident@1Corinthians:1:19 @ For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and I will bring to nought the prudence of the prudent."

riversident@1Corinthians:1:20 @ Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this world? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

riversident@1Corinthians:1:21 @ For when in the wisdom of God the world by its wisdom did not come to know God, God was pleased to save through the foolishness of our proclamation those who believe.

riversident@1Corinthians:1:22 @ Jews ask for signs and Greeks seek for wisdom,

riversident@1Corinthians:1:23 @ but we proclaim Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling block, to Gentiles folly,

riversident@1Corinthians:1:24 @ but to those who are called, whether Jews or Greeks, Christ, the power of God and the wisdom of God.

riversident@1Corinthians:1:25 @ For God's foolishness is wiser than men and God's weakness is stronger than men.

riversident@1Corinthians:1:26 @ Consider your own call, brethren, that not many wise, humanly speaking, not many powerful, not many high-born have been called.

riversident@1Corinthians:1:27 @ But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the strong,

riversident@1Corinthians:1:28 @ and God has chosen the low-born things and the things of no account, the things that are not, to defeat the things that are,

riversident@1Corinthians:1:29 @ that no human being may boast in God's presence.

riversident@1Corinthians:1:30 @ By God's act you are in Christ Jesus, who has become to us wisdom from God and righteousness and holiness and deliverance,

riversident@1Corinthians:1:31 @ so that, as it is written, "Let him who boasts boast in the Lord."

riversident@1Corinthians:2:1 @ AND I in coming to you, brethren, did not come with superiority of speech or of wisdom, announcing to you the testimony of God.

riversident@1Corinthians:2:2 @ For I determined to know nothing among you but Jesus Christ \'97 and him crucified.

riversident@1Corinthians:2:3 @ And I came to you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling,

riversident@1Corinthians:2:4 @ and my speech and my proclamation were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but with spiritual and powerful proof,

riversident@1Corinthians:2:5 @ that your faith might not depend on the wisdom of man but on the power of God.