What I am saying is for wise men, do you be the judges of it.

I say this to put you to shame. Is there not among you one wise man who may be able to give a decision between his brothers?

Let no man have a false idea. If any man seems to himself to be wise among you, let him become foolish, so that he may be wise.

Where is the wise? where is he who has knowledge of the law? where is the man of this world who has a love of discussion? has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

In the measure of the grace given to me, I, as a wise master-builder, have put the base in position, and another goes on building on it. But let every man take care what he puts on it.

Because what seems foolish in God is wiser than men; and what seems feeble in God is stronger than men.

For Christ sent me, not to give baptism, but to be a preacher of the good news: not with wise words, for fear that the cross of Christ might be made of no value.

As it says in the holy Writings, I will put an end to the wisdom of the wise, and will put on one side the designs of those who have knowledge.

For you see God's design for you, my brothers, that he has not taken a great number of the wise after the flesh, not the strong, not the noble:

But God made selection of the foolish things of this world so that he might put the wise to shame; and the feeble things that he might put to shame the strong;

And when I came to you, my brothers, I did not come with wise words of knowledge, putting before you the secret of God.

For the wisdom of this world is foolish before God. As it is said in the holy Writings, He who takes the wise in their secret designs:

And again, The Lord has knowledge of the reasonings of the wise, that they are nothing.

My brothers, it is because of you that I have taken Apollos and myself as examples of these things, so that in us you might see that it is not wise to go farther than what is in the holy Writings, so that no one of you may be lifted up against his brother.

We are made to seem foolish for Christ, but you are wise in Christ; we are feeble, but you are strong; you have glory, but we have shame.

I am free to do all things; but not all things are wise. I am free to do all things; but I will not let myself come under the power of any.

But I say this, my brothers, the time is short; and from now it will be wise for those who have wives to be as if they had them not;

We are free to do all things, but there are things which it is not wise to do. We are free to do all things, but not all things are for the common good.