1 Corinthians 1:20
1 Corinthians chapter 1 · verse 20 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
KJV
King James Version · 1611Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
Context
v.19For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And the discernment of the discerning will I bring to nought.
v.20This passage
v.21For seeing that in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom knew not God, it was God’s good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save them that believe.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 12:17
He leadeth counsellors away stripped, And judges maketh he fools.
- 1 Corinthians 3:19
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He that taketh the wise in their craftiness:
- Isaiah 53:1
Who hath believed our message? and to whom hath the arm of Jehovah been revealed?
- 2 Samuel 16:23
And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, was as if a man inquired at the oracle of God: so was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.
- Romans 1:22
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
- Isaiah 19:11
The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish; the counsel of the wisest counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?