1 Corinthians 1:18-25 - Christ Crucified, The Power And Wisdom Of God
18 For the message of the cross is nonsense to those who are in the process of being destroyed, but it is the power of God to those who are in the process of being saved. 19 For the Scripture says: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will set aside the learning of the learned."
20 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? 21 For since in accordance with the wisdom of God the world had never in reality, by means of its wisdom, come to know God, God chose through the nonsense of the message proclaimed, to save the people who put their faith in Him. 22 While Jews are demanding spectacular signs and Greeks are searching for philosophy, 23 we are preaching the Christ who was crucified -- a message that is a trap-stick to the Jews and nonsense to the Greeks, 24 but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks alike, the Christ who is God's power and God's wisdom. 25 It is so, because God's nonsense is wiser than men's wisdom, and God's weakness is mightier than men's might.