'Nonsense' in the Bible

For the message about the cross is nonsense to those who are being destroyed, but it is God's power to us who are being saved.

Where is the wise person? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? God has turned the wisdom of the world into nonsense, hasn't he?

For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom did not know God, God was pleased to save those who believe through the nonsense of our preaching.

but we preach the Messiah crucified. He is a stumbling block to Jews and nonsense to gentiles,

For God's nonsense is wiser than human wisdom, and God's weakness is stronger than human strength.

But God chose what is nonsense in the world to make the wise feel ashamed. God chose what is weak in the world to make the strong feel ashamed.

A person who isn't spiritual doesn't accept the things of God's Spirit, for they are nonsense to him. He can't understand them because they are spiritually evaluated.

For the wisdom of this world is nonsense in God's sight. For it is written, "He catches the wise with their own trickery,"