'Wisdom' in the Bible
For it is written:I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,and I will set aside the understanding of the experts.
Where is the philosopher? Where is the scholar? Where is the debater of this age? Hasn’t God made the world’s wisdom foolish?
For 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 the message preached.
For the Jews ask for signs and the Greeks seek wisdom,
Yet to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is God’s power and God’s wisdom,
because God’s foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God’s weakness is stronger than human strength.
But it is from Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became God-given wisdom for us—our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption,
When I came to you, brothers, announcing the testimony of God to you, I did not come with brilliance of speech or wisdom.
My speech and my proclamation were not with persuasive words of wisdom but with a powerful demonstration by the Spirit,
so that your faith might not be based on men’s wisdom but on God’s power.
However, we do speak a wisdom among the mature, but not a wisdom of this age, or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.
On the contrary, we speak God’s hidden wisdom in a mystery, a wisdom God predestined before the ages for our glory.
We also speak these things, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual things to spiritual people.
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, since it is written: He catches the wise in their craftiness;
to one is given a message of wisdomthrough the Spirit,to another, a message of knowledgeby the same Spirit,
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