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1 Corinthians 1:20

WEB

20Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Hasn’t God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

KJV

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?

BSB

20[+] Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

FBV

20[+] So how about the wise, the writers, and the philosophers of this age? Hasn't God turned the wisdom of this world into foolishness?

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Extra References

Romans 1:22

22Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,


Job 12:17

17He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.


1 Corinthians 3:19

19For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He has taken the wise in their craftiness.”


1 Corinthians 1:19

19For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise. I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing.”


Isaiah 44:25

25who frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; who turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish;


Job 12:24

24He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.


2 Samuel 16:23

23The counsel of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, was as if a man inquired at the inner sanctuary of God. All the counsel of Ahithophel was like this both with David and with Absalom.


Job 12:20

20He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders.


2 Samuel 15:31

31Someone told David, saying, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” David said, “LORD, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”


1 Corinthians 2:6

6We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown, yet a wisdom not of this world nor of the rulers of this world who are coming to nothing.