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?

For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn't know God, it was God's good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.

but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong;

and God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that are not, that he might bring to nothing the things that are:

We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown; yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing.

which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn't have crucified the Lord of glory.

But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, "He has taken the wise in their craftiness."

whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come. All are yours,

For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.

Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.

yet not at all meaning with the sexual sinners of this world, or with the covetous and extortioners, or with idolaters; for then you would have to leave the world.

Don't you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.

but he who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife.

There is also a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world -- how she may please her husband.

Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

There are, it may be, so many kinds of sounds in the world, and none of them is without meaning.