1 Corinthians 1:18-29

18For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but it is the power of God to us who are being saved.

19For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will set aside the intelligence of the intelligent.

20Where is the one who is wise? Where is the teacher of the law? Where is the debater of this age? Hasn’t God made the world’s wisdom foolish?

21For since, in God’s wisdom, the world did not know God through wisdom, God was pleased to save those who believe through the foolishness of what is preached.

22For the Jews ask for signs and the Greeks seek wisdom,

23but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to the Jews and foolishness to the Gentiles.

24Yet to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God,

25because God’s foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God’s weakness is stronger than human strength.

26Brothers and sisters, consider your calling: Not many were wise from a human perspective, not many powerful, not many of noble birth.

27Instead, God has chosen what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen what is weak in the world to shame the strong.

28God has chosen what is insignificant and despised in the world  — what is viewed as nothing — to bring to nothing what is viewed as something,

29so that no one may boast in his presence.