1 Corinthians 1:20
Where is the wise? where is he who has knowledge of the law? where is the man of this world who has a love of discussion? has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
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1 Corinthians 1:20
Where is the wise? where is he who has knowledge of the law? where is the man of this world who has a love of discussion? has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
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1 Corinthians 1:19
As it says in the holy Writings, I will put an end to the wisdom of the wise, and will put on one side the designs of those who have knowledge.
1 Corinthians 3:18
Let no man have a false idea. If any man seems to himself to be wise among you, let him become foolish, so that he may be wise.
1 Corinthians 3:19
For the wisdom of this world is foolish before God. As it is said in the holy Writings, He who takes the wise in their secret designs:
1 Corinthians 3:20
And again, The Lord has knowledge of the reasonings of the wise, that they are nothing.
Isaiah 5:21
Cursed are those who seem wise to themselves, and who take pride in their knowledge!
Matthew 11:25
At that time Jesus made answer and said, I give praise to you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have kept these things secret from the wise and the men of learning, and have made them clear to little children.
Isaiah 47:10
For you had faith in your evil-doing; you said, No one sees me; by your wisdom and knowledge you have been turned out of the way: and you have said in your heart, I am, and there is no other.
Luke 10:21
In that same hour he was full of joy in the Holy Spirit and said, I give praise to you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have kept these things secret from the wise and the men of learning, and have made them clear to little children: for so, O Father, it was pleasing in your eyes.
Romans 11:25
For it is my desire, brothers, that this secret may be clear to you, so that you may not have pride in your knowledge, that Israel has been made hard in part, till all the Gentiles have come in;
1 Kings 12:27
If the people go up to make offerings in the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, their heart will be turned again to their lord, to Rehoboam, king of Judah; and they will put me to death and go back to Rehoboam, king of Judah.
Job 15:9
What knowledge have you which we have not? is there anything in your mind which is not in ours?
Isaiah 29:15
Cursed are those who go deep to keep their designs secret from the Lord, and whose works are in the dark, and who say, Who sees us? and who has knowledge of our acts?
Jeremiah 4:22
For my people are foolish, they have no knowledge of me; they are evil-minded children, without sense, all of them: they are wise in evil-doing, but have no knowledge of doing good.
Ezekiel 28:3
See, you are wiser than Daniel; there is no secret which is deeper than your knowledge:
Romans 12:16
Be in harmony with one another. Do not have a high opinion of yourselves, but be in agreement with common people. Do not give yourselves an air of wisdom.
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1 Corinthians 1:21
For because, by the purpose of God, the world, with all its wisdom, had not the knowledge of God, it was God's pleasure, by so foolish a thing as preaching, to give salvation to those who had faith in him.
1 Corinthians 1:22
Seeing that the Jews make request for signs, and the Greeks are looking for knowledge:
1 Corinthians 1:23
But we give the good news of Christ on the cross, a hard thing to the Jews, and a foolish thing to the Gentiles;
1 Corinthians 1:24
But to those of God's selection, Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power and the wisdom of God.
1 Corinthians 1:25
Because what seems foolish in God is wiser than men; and what seems feeble in God is stronger than men.
1 Corinthians 1:18
For the word of the cross seems foolish to those who are on the way to destruction; but to us who are on the way to salvation it is the power of God.
Acts 17:18
And some of those who were supporters of the theories of the Epicureans and the Stoics, had a meeting with him. And some said, What is this talker of foolish words saying? And others, He seems to be a preacher of strange gods: because he was preaching of Jesus and his coming back from the dead.
Acts 6:9
But some of those who were of the Synagogue named that of the Libertines, and some of the men of Cyrene and of Alexandria and those from Cilicia and Asia, had arguments with Stephen.
Acts 17:21
(Now all the Athenians and the men from other lands who come there were giving all their time to talking or hearing of anything new.)
Acts 17:32
Now on hearing about the coming back from death, some of them made sport of it, but others said, Let us go more fully into this another time.
1 Corinthians 1:1
Paul, an Apostle of Jesus Christ by the purpose of God, and Sosthenes the brother,
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Romans 1:21
Because, having the knowledge of God, they did not give glory to God as God, and did not give praise, but their minds were full of foolish things, and their hearts, being without sense, were made dark.
Romans 1:22
Seeming to be wise, they were in fact foolish,
Romans 1:23
And by them the glory of the eternal God was changed and made into the image of man who is not eternal, and of birds and beasts and things which go on the earth.
Romans 1:24
For this reason God gave them up to the evil desires of their hearts, working shame in their bodies with one another:
Romans 1:25
Because by them the true word of God was changed into that which is false, and they gave worship and honour to the thing which is made, and not to him who made it, to whom be blessing for ever. So be it.
Jeremiah 10:14
Then every man becomes like a beast without knowledge; every gold-worker is put to shame by the image he has made: for his metal image is deceit, and there is no breath in them.
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Isaiah 33:18
Your heart will give thought to the cause of your fear: where is the scribe, where is he who made a record of the payments, where is he by whom the towers were numbered?
Jeremiah 8:8
How is it that you say, We are wise and the law of the Lord is with us? But see, the false pen of the scribes has made it false.
Jeremiah 8:9
The wise men are shamed, they are overcome with fear and taken: see, they have given up the word of the Lord; and what use is their wisdom to them?
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1 Corinthians 2:5
So that your faith might be based not on man's wisdom but on the power of God.
1 Corinthians 2:6
But still we have wisdom for those who are complete in knowledge, though not the wisdom of this world, and not of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing:
1 Corinthians 2:7
But we give the news of the secret wisdom of God, which he had kept in store before the world came into existence, for our glory;
1 Corinthians 2:8
Of which not one of the rulers of this world had knowledge: for if they had, they would not have put the Lord of glory on the cross:
Luke 16:8
And his lord was pleased with the false servant, because he had been wise; for the sons of this world are wiser in relation to their generation than the sons of light.
1 Corinthians 2:13
And these are the things which we say, not in the language of man's wisdom, but in words given to us by the Spirit, judging the things of the spirit by the help of the Spirit.
1 Corinthians 2:14
For the natural man is not able to take in the things of the Spirit of God: for they seem foolish to him, and he is not able to have knowledge of them, because such knowledge comes only through the Spirit.
Colossians 2:3
In whom are all the secret stores of wisdom and knowledge.
Ecclesiastes 7:23
All this I have put to the test by wisdom; I said, I will be wise, but it was far from me.
1 Corinthians 2:3
And I was with you without strength, in fear and in doubt.
2 Corinthians 1:12
For our glory is in this, in the knowledge which we have that our way of life in the world, and most of all in relation to you, has been holy and true in the eyes of God; not in the wisdom of the flesh, but in the grace of God.
Revelation 5:12
Saying with a great voice, It is right to give to the Lamb who was put to death, power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and blessing.
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1 Corinthians 1:26
For you see God's design for you, my brothers, that he has not taken a great number of the wise after the flesh, not the strong, not the noble:
1 Corinthians 1:27
But God made selection of the foolish things of this world so that he might put the wise to shame; and the feeble things that he might put to shame the strong;
1 Corinthians 1:28
And the low things of the world, and the things without honour, did God make selection of, yes, even the things which are not, so that he might make as nothing the things which are:
1 Corinthians 1:29
So that no flesh might have glory before God.
Romans 3:27
What reason, then, is there for pride? It is shut out. By what sort of law? of works? No, but by a law of faith.
Jeremiah 9:23
This is the word of the Lord: Let not the wise man take pride in his wisdom, or the strong man in his strength, or the man of wealth in his wealth:
1 Corinthians 1:31
So that, as it is said in the holy Writings, Whoever has a desire for glory, let his glory be in the Lord.
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Isaiah 19:11
The chiefs of Zoan are completely foolish; the wisest guides of Pharaoh have become like beasts: how do you say to Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the offspring of early kings?
Isaiah 19:12
Where, then, are your wise men? let them make clear to you, let them give you knowledge of the purpose of the Lord of armies for Egypt.
Isaiah 19:13
The chiefs of Zoan have become foolish, the chiefs of Noph are tricked, the heads of her tribes are the cause of Egypt's wandering out of the way.
2 Samuel 15:31
And word came to David, saying, Ahithophel is among those who are joined to Absalom. And David said, O Lord, let the wisdom of Ahithophel be made foolish.
2 Samuel 16:23
In those days the opinions of Ahithophel were valued as highly as if through him a man might get direction from God; so were they valued by David as much as by Absalom.
2 Samuel 17:14
Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, Hushai's suggestion is better than that of Ahithophel. For it was the purpose of the Lord to make the wise designs of Ahithophel without effect, so that the Lord might send evil on Absalom.
2 Samuel 17:23
Now when Ahithophel saw that his suggestion was not acted on, he got his ass ready, and went back to his house, to the town where he came from, and having put his house in order, he put himself to death by hanging; so he came to his end and was put in the resting-place of his father.
Job 5:12
Who makes the designs of the wise go wrong, so that they are unable to give effect to their purposes.
Job 5:13
He takes the wise in their secret designs, and the purposes of the twisted are cut off suddenly.
Job 5:14
In the daytime it becomes dark for them, and in the sunlight they go feeling about as if it was night.
Job 12:17
He takes away the wisdom of the wise guides, and makes judges foolish;
2 Samuel 15:34
But if you go back to the town and say to Absalom, I will be your servant, O king; as in the past I have been your father's servant, so now I will be yours: then you will be able to keep Ahithophel's designs against me from being put into effect.
Job 17:4
You have kept their hearts from wisdom: for this cause you will not give them honour.
Psalms 33:10
The Lord undoes the designs of the nations; he makes the thoughts of the peoples without effect.
Proverbs 21:30
Wisdom and knowledge and wise suggestions are of no use against the Lord.
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Isaiah 44:25
Who makes the signs of those who give word of the future come to nothing, so that those who have knowledge of secret arts go off their heads; turning the wise men back, and making their knowledge foolish:
Isaiah 29:14
For this cause I will again do a strange thing among this people, a thing to be wondered at: and the wisdom of their wise men will come to nothing, and the sense of their guides will no longer be seen.
Isaiah 19:14
The Lord has sent among them a spirit of error: and by them Egypt is turned out of the right way in all her doings, as a man overcome by wine is uncertain in his steps.
Jeremiah 49:7
About Edom. This is what the Lord of armies has said. Is there no more wisdom in Teman? have wise suggestions come to an end among men of good sense? has their wisdom completely gone?
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Colossians 2:8
Take care that no one takes you away by force, through man's wisdom and deceit, going after the beliefs of men and the theories of the world, and not after Christ:
Galatians 4:3
So we, when we were young, were kept under the first rules of the world;
1 Timothy 6:20
O Timothy, take good care of that which is given to you, turning away from the wrong and foolish talk and arguments of that knowledge which is falsely so named;
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Ezra 7:6
This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a scribe, expert in the law of Moses which the Lord, the God of Israel, had given: and the king, moved by the Lord his God, gave him whatever he made request for.
2 Samuel 8:17
And Zadok and Abiathar, the son of Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub, were priests; and Seraiah was the scribe;
Ezra 7:11
Now this is a copy of the letter which King Artaxerxes gave to Ezra, the priest and the scribe, who put into writing the words of the orders of the Lord, and of his rules for Israel:
Matthew 5:20
For I say to you, If your righteousness is not greater than the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never go into the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 7:29
for he was teaching as one having authority, and not as their scribes.
Matthew 13:52
And he said to them, For this reason every scribe who has become a disciple of the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house, who gives out from his store things new and old.
Matthew 17:10
And his disciples, questioning him, said, Why then do the scribes say that Elijah has to come first?
Matthew 23:34
For this reason, I send you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: some of them you will put to death and put on the cross, and to some of them you will give blows in your Synagogues, driving them from town to town;
Acts 19:35
And when the chief secretary had got the people quiet, he said, Men of Ephesus, is any man without knowledge that the town of Ephesus is the keeper of the holy place of the great Diana, who was sent down from Jupiter?
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Romans 12:2
And let not your behaviour be like that of this world, but be changed and made new in mind, so that by experience you may have knowledge of the good and pleasing and complete purpose of God.
2 Corinthians 4:4
Because the god of this world has made blind the minds of those who have not faith, so that the light of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, might not be shining on them.
Ephesians 2:2
In which you were living in the past, after the ways of this present world, doing the pleasure of the lord of the power of the air, the spirit who is now working in those who go against the purpose of God;
1 Corinthians 5:10
But I had not in mind the sinners who are outside the church, or those who have a desire for and take the property of others, or those who give worship to images; for it is not possible to keep away from such people without going out of the world completely:
Galatians 1:4
Who gave himself for our sins, so that he might make us free from this present evil world, after the purpose of our God and Father:
2 Timothy 4:10
For Demas has gone away from me, for love of this present life, and has gone to Thessalonica: Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.
Ephesians 1:21
Far over all rule and authority and power and every name which is named, not only in the present order, but in that which is to come:
Titus 2:12
Training us so that, turning away from evil and the desires of this world, we may be living wisely and uprightly in the knowledge of God in this present life;
James 4:4
O you who are false to God, do you not see that the friends of this world are not God's friends? Every man desiring to be a friend of this world makes himself a hater of God.
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James 3:13
Who has wisdom and good sense among you? let him make his works clear by a life of gentle wisdom.
James 3:14
But if you have bitter envy in your heart and the desire to get the better of others, have no pride in this, talking falsely against what is true.
James 3:15
This wisdom is not from heaven, but is of the earth and the flesh and the Evil One.
James 3:16
For where envy is, and the desire to get the better of others, there is no order, but every sort of evil-doing.
James 3:17
But the wisdom which is from heaven is first holy, then gentle, readily giving way in argument, full of peace and mercy and good works, not doubting, not seeming other than it is.
James 3:18
And the fruit of righteousness is planted in peace for those who make peace.
Job 28:28
And he said to man, Truly the fear of the Lord is wisdom, and to keep from evil is the way to knowledge.
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John 7:48
Have any of the rulers belief in him, or any one of the Pharisees?
John 7:49
But these people who have no knowledge of the law are cursed.
Proverbs 26:12
Have you seen a man who seems to himself to be wise? There is more hope for the foolish than for him.
Romans 1:14
I have a debt to Greeks and to the nations outside; to the wise and to those who have no learning.
1 Corinthians 4:10
We are made to seem foolish for Christ, but you are wise in Christ; we are feeble, but you are strong; you have glory, but we have shame.
Proverbs 3:5
Put all your hope in God, not looking to your reason for support.
Proverbs 3:7
Put no high value on your wisdom: let the fear of the Lord be before you, and keep yourself from evil:
Isaiah 10:13
For he has said, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my knowledge, for I am wise: and I have taken away the limits of the peoples' lands, and the stores of their wealth have become mine; and I have made towns low in the dust, sending destruction on those living in them;
Isaiah 29:16
You are turning things upside down! Is the wet earth the same to you as the one who is forming it? will the thing made say of him who made it, He made me not: or the thing formed say of him who gave it form, He has no knowledge?
John 9:40
These words came to the ears of the Pharisees who were with him and they said to him, Are we, then, blind?
2 Corinthians 11:19
For you put up with the foolish gladly, being wise yourselves.
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Proverbs 2:4
If you are looking for her as for silver, and searching for her as for stored-up wealth;
Proverbs 2:5
Then the fear of the Lord will be clear to you, and knowledge of God will be yours.
Proverbs 2:6
For the Lord gives wisdom; out of his mouth come knowledge and reason:
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John 1:10
He was in the world, the world which came into being through him, but the world had no knowledge of him.
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1 Corinthians 15:55
O death, where is your power? O death, where are your pains?
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Titus 3:9
But have nothing to do with foolish questionings, and lists of generations, and fights and arguments about the law; for they are of no profit and foolish.
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