Therefore, behold, I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes; some of them ye will kill and crucify, and some of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;

But if our unrighteousness serve to display the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicteth punishment? (I am speaking as men do.)

For consider, brethren, who ye are that have been called; not many wise men after the fashion of the world, not many mighty, not many noble;

For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles as lowest, as men sentenced to death; for we have been made a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men.

I speak as to wise men, judge ye what I say.

See then that ye walk circumspectly; not as unwise men, but as wise;