For this reason, behold, I send you prophets and wise men and scribes; and some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;

For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise men according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble call you;

I speak as to wise men; judge you what I say.

See, then, that you walk circumspectly, not as unwise, but as wise men,

Therefore, whoever hears these words of mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on the rock:

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

I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not among you a wise man, not even one, who shall be able to arbitrate between his brethren?

For your obedience has gone abroad to all men: I rejoice, therefore, on your account. But I desire you to be wise in respect to that which is good, and guileless in respect to that which is evil.

For it is a pleasure to you to bear with men of no understanding, since you yourselves are wise.

Let no one deceive himself: if any one among you is considered as wise in this age, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

For the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.