1 Corinthians 1:20

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

Is the wise

Isaiah 33:18

Isaiah 53:1

Hath

Romans 1:22

General references

Bible References

Is the wise

Your mind will meditate on the past terror:
“Where is the accountant?
Where is the tribute collector?
Where is the one who spied out our defenses?”

Who has believed what we have heard?
And who has the arm of the Lord

been revealed to?

Hath

For it is written:

I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
and I will set aside the understanding of the experts.

Then someone reported to David: “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.”

“Lord,” David pleaded, “please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness!”

Now the advice Ahithophel gave in those days was like someone asking about a word from God—such was the regard that both David and Absalom had for Ahithophel’s advice.

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Since the Lord had decreed that Ahithophel’s good advice be undermined in order to bring about Absalom’s ruin, Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The advice of Hushai the Archite is better than Ahithophel’s advice.”

He leads counselors away barefoot
and makes judges go mad.

who destroys the omens of the false prophets
and makes fools of diviners;
who confounds the wise
and makes their knowledge foolishness;

Claiming to be wise, they became fools

General references

He leads counselors away barefoot
and makes judges go mad.

You have closed their minds to understanding,
therefore You will not honor them.

But where can wisdom be found,
and where is understanding located?

Take care then, that the light in you is not darkness.

Have any of the rulers or Pharisees believed in Him?

Claiming to be wise, they became fools