1 Corinthians 3:19

Divisiveness And Immaturity

¹⁸ Let no one deceive himself. If any one among you seems to be wise in this age, let them become a fool that they may be wise. ¹⁹ For the wisdom of this world is foolishness before God. For it is written, “He is the one who catches the wise in their craftiness”; ²⁰ And again, The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.

As It is Written

Before God

In the Sight of God

It is Written

Of This World

Scripture Says

With God

O God

Job

Job 5:13

He takes the wise in their own prudence, and the counsel of his adversaries is turned to folly.

1 Corinthians 1:19-20

For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.

1 Corinthians 2:6

For we speak perfect wisdom of God, and not the wisdom of this age nor of the princes of this age, that come to nought,

Exodus 1:10

Now, therefore, let us be wise concerning him, that he not multiply and it come to pass that when war comes, he shall also join with our enemies and fight against us and so leave the land.

Exodus 18:11

Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods; for in the thing in which they dealt proudly he prevailed against them.

2 Samuel 15:31

And it was told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. Then David said, O LORD, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into folly.

2 Samuel 16:23

And the counselled of Ahithophel, which he counselled in those days, was as if a man had enquired at the word of God: so was all the counselled of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.

2 Samuel 17:14

Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai, the Archite, is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the LORD had given orders to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom.

2 Samuel 17:23

And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass and arose, and went home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order and hanged himself and died and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.

Esther 7:10

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king's wrath was pacified.

Psalm 7:14-15

Behold, he travails with iniquity and has conceived of his own work and brought forth falsehood.

Psalm 9:15-16

The Gentiles are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid their own foot is taken.

Psalm 141:10

Let the wicked fall together into their own nets, whilst I pass on ahead forever.

Isaiah 19:11-14

Surely the princes of Zoan are fools; the counsel of the prudent counsellors of Pharaoh is become carnal; how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of the ancient kings?

Isaiah 29:14-16

Therefore, behold, I will again do a marvellous work among this people with a fearful miracle: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the prudence of their prudent men shall fade away.

Isaiah 44:25

that undoes the signs of the fortune tellers and makes the diviners mad; that turns the wise men backward and makes their wisdom fade away;

Romans 1:21-22

because having known God, they did not glorify him as God, neither were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.