Parallel Verses

Goodspeed New Testament

Where now is your philosopher? Your scribe? Your reasoner of today? Has not God made a fool of the world's wisdom?

New American Standard Bible

Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

King James Version

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?

Holman Bible

Where is the philosopher? Where is the scholar? Where is the debater of this age? Hasn’t God made the world’s wisdom foolish?

International Standard Version

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?

A Conservative Version

Where is a wise man? Where is a scholar? Where is a researcher of this age? Did not God make foolish the wisdom of this world?

American Standard Version

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

Amplified

Where is the wise man (philosopher)? Where is the scribe (scholar)? Where is the debater (logician, orator) of this age? Has God not exposed the foolishness of this world’s wisdom?

An Understandable Version

Where is the wise person? And where is the expert in the law? [And] where is the debater of this world?

Anderson New Testament

Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of- this world?

Bible in Basic English

Where is the wise? where is he who has knowledge of the law? where is the man of this world who has a love of discussion? has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

Common New Testament

Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

Daniel Mace New Testament

where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputant of this age? has not God prov'd the wisdom of this world to be downright folly.

Darby Translation

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

Godbey New Testament

Where is the wise man? where is the scribe? where is the investigator of this age? has not God rendered the wisdom of the world foolishness?

John Wesley New Testament

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?

Julia Smith Translation

Where the wise? where the scribe? where the seekers together of this life has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

Where [is] the wise person? Where [is] the scribe? Where [is] the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

Modern King James verseion

Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the searcher of this world? Hath not God made the wisdom of this world foolishness?

Moffatt New Testament

Sage, scribe, critic of this world, where are they all? Has not God stultified the wisdom of the world?

Montgomery New Testament

Sage, rabbi, skeptic of this present age??here are they all? Has not God made foolish the philosophy of the world?

NET Bible

Where is the wise man? Where is the expert in the Mosaic law? Where is the debater of this age? Has God not made the wisdom of the world foolish?

New Heart English Bible

Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this world? Hasn't God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

Noyes New Testament

Where is the wise man? Where the scribe? Where the disputer of this world? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

Sawyer New Testament

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

The Emphasized Bible

Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

Thomas Haweis New Testament

Where is the sophist? where is the scribe? where is the inquisitive searcher after this world's wisdom? hath not God turned into folly the wisdom of this world?

Twentieth Century New Testament

Where is the Philosopher? where the Teacher of the Law? where the Disputant of to-day? Has not God shown the world's philosophy to be folly?

Webster

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?

Weymouth New Testament

Where is your wise man? Where your expounder of the Law? Where your investigator of the questions of this present age? Has not God shown the world's wisdom to be utter foolishness?

Williams New Testament

So where is your philosopher? Where is your man of letters? Where is your logician of this age? Has not God shown up the nonsense of the world's wisdom?

World English Bible

Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Hasn't God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

Worrell New Testament

Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

Worsley New Testament

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

Youngs Literal Translation

where is the wise? where the scribe? where a disputer of this age? did not God make foolish the wisdom of this world?

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ποῦ 
Pou 
Usage: 32

is the wise
σοφός 
Sophos 
Usage: 19

ποῦ 
Pou 
ποῦ 
Pou 
Usage: 32
Usage: 32

is the scribe
γραμματεύς 
Grammateus 
Usage: 49

is the disputer
συζητητής 
Suzetetes 
Usage: 1

of this
τούτου 
Toutou 
τούτου 
Toutou 
Usage: 53
Usage: 53

αἰών 
Aion 
Usage: 101

hath not
οὐχί 
Ouchi 
not, nay, not, not so
Usage: 32

God
θεός 
theos 
Usage: 1151

μωραίνω 
Moraino 
Usage: 2

the wisdom
σοφία 
Sophia 
Usage: 45

Devotionals

Devotionals about 1 Corinthians 1:20

Images 1 Corinthians 1:20

Prayers for 1 Corinthians 1:20

Context Readings

Christ Crucified, The Power And Wisdom Of God

19 For the Scripture says, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And I will thwart the shrewdness of the shrewd!" 20 Where now is your philosopher? Your scribe? Your reasoner of today? Has not God made a fool of the world's wisdom? 21 For since in God's providence the world with all its wisdom did not come to know God, God chose, through the folly of the gospel message, to save those who had faith in him.

Cross References

Romans 1:22

They called themselves wise, but they have turned into fools,

1 Corinthians 1:19

For the Scripture says, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And I will thwart the shrewdness of the shrewd!"

1 Corinthians 2:6

Yet there is a wisdom that we impart when we are with people who have a mature faith, but it is not what this world calls wisdom, nor what the authorities of this world, doomed as they are to pass away, would call so.

1 Corinthians 3:19

For this world's wisdom is foolishness to God. For the Scripture says, "He who catches the wise with their own cunning,"

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