isv 1Corinthians:1:18-2:5
isv@1Corinthians:1:18 @ For the message about the cross is nonsense to those who are being destroyed, but it is God's power to us who are being saved.
isv@1Corinthians:1:19 @ For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,and the intelligence of the intelligent I will reject.”
isv@1Corinthians:1:20 @ Where is the wise person? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? God has turned the wisdom of the world into nonsense, hasn't he?
isv@1Corinthians:1:21 @ For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know God, God decided through the nonsense of our preaching to save those who believe.
isv@1Corinthians:1:22 @ Jews ask for signs, and Greeks look for wisdom,
isv@1Corinthians:1:23 @ but we preach Christ crucified. He is a stumbling block to Jews and nonsense to Gentiles,
isv@1Corinthians:1:24 @ but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is God's power and God's wisdom.
isv@1Corinthians:1:25 @ For God's nonsense is wiser than human wisdom, and God's weakness is stronger than human strength.
isv@1Corinthians:1:26 @ Brothers, think about your own calling. Not many of you were wise by human standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth.
isv@1Corinthians:1:27 @ But God chose what is nonsense in the world to make the wise feel ashamed. God chose what is weak in the world to make the strong feel ashamed.
isv@1Corinthians:1:28 @ And God chose what is insignificant in the world, what is despised, what is nothing, in order to destroy what is something,
isv@1Corinthians:1:29 @ so that no human being may boast in God's presence.
isv@1Corinthians:1:30 @ It is because of him that you are in union with Christ Jesus, who for us has become wisdom from God, as well as our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption.
isv@1Corinthians:1:31 @ Therefore, as it is written, “The person who boasts must boast in the Lord.”
isv@1Corinthians:2:1 @ When I came to you, brothers, I didn't come and tell you about God's secret with rhetorical language or wisdom.
isv@1Corinthians:2:2 @ For while I was with you I resolved to know nothing except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
isv@1Corinthians:2:3 @ It was in weakness, fear, and great trembling that I came to you.
isv@1Corinthians:2:4 @ My message and my preaching were not accompanied by clever words of wisdom, but by a display of the Spirit's power,
isv@1Corinthians:2:5 @ so that your faith would not be based on human wisdom but on God's power.
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