Where is the wise man? Where the scribe? Where the disputer of this world? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

For since, in the wisdom of God, the world by its wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save those who believe;

For consider, brethren, who ye are that have been called; not many wise men after the fashion of the world, not many mighty, not many noble;

but the foolish things of the world did God choose, to put to shame the wise; and the weak things of the world did God choose, to put to shame the things which are strong;

and the mean things of the world, and the things which are despised, did God choose, the things which are not, to bring to nought things that are;

But we do speak wisdom among the perfect; not, however, the wisdom of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nought;

but we speak Gods wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom, which God determined on before the world was, for our glory;

which none of the rulers of this world comprehended; for had they comprehended it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory;

But we did not receive the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that have been given to us by the grace of God;

Let no one deceive himself; if any one thinketh himself 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 that taketh 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 hath set forth us the apostles as lowest, as men sentenced to death; for we have been made a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men.

being slandered, we exhort; we have become as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things until now.

certainly not meaning the fornicators of this world, or the covetous and extortioners, or idolaters; for to do this ye must go out of the world.

Or do ye not know, that the holy will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge in causes of the least importance?

and they that use this world as not abusing it; for the outward condition of this world is passing away;

but he that is married careth about the things of the world, how to please his wife.

There is a difference also between a wife and a virgin; the unmarried woman careth about the things of the Lord, to be holy, both in body and in spirit; but she that is married careth about the things of the world, how to please her husband.

Concerning the eating of the things offered in sacrifice to idols, then, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

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

There are, it may be, so many kinds of languages in the world, and not one is without meaning.