Let no one deceive himself. If any one of you supposes that he is wise in this world's wisdom, as compared with the rest of you, to become really wise he must become a fool.

For the Scripture says: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will set aside the learning of the learned."

For consider, brothers, the way God called you; that not many of you, in accordance with human standards, were wise, not many influential, not many of high birth.

Just the opposite: God chose what the world calls foolish to put the wise to shame, what the world calls weak to put the strong to shame,

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

and again, "The Lord knows that the arguings of the wise are useless."

I ask this to make you blush with shame. Has it come to this, that there is not a single wise man among you who could settle a grievance of one brother against another,

To one, wise speech is given by the Spirit; to another, by the same Spirit, intelligent speech is given;