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

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;

I speak as to wise men, judge ye what I say.

Every one then that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, shall be likened to a wise man, who built his house upon a rock;

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

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

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

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.

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