For consider, brethren, God's call to you. Not many who are wise with merely human wisdom, not many of position and influence, not many of noble birth have been called.

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For the Message of the Cross is foolishness to those who are on the way to perdition, but it is the power of God to those whom He is saving.

and that from infancy you have known the sacred writings which are able to make you wise to obtain salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

General references

Consider therefore whether the light that is in you is anything but mere darkness.

While boasting of their wisdom they became utter fools,

For so it stands written, "I will exhibit the nothingness of the wisdom of the wise, and the intelligence of the intelligent I will bring to nought."