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

I speak as unto wise men: judge ye what I say.

Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you thinketh himself a wise man in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

I speak to you to shame you. Is it so, that there is not among you a wise man? Not so much as one who is able to judge between one brother and another?

Who is a wise man and intelligent among you, let him shew in a becoming conduct his works with the meekness of wisdom.

For ye see your calling, brethren, that not many fleshly wise, not many men in power, not many men of high birth, are called:

For your obedience is gone forth in report to all men. I rejoice therefore on your account: but I wish you to be wise indeed unto good, but harmless respecting evil.

Verily I say unto you, There are some of those standing here, who shall in no wise taste of death, until they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.

For to one man by the Spirit is given wise discourse; but to another speech [communicative] of knowledge by the same Spirit;

He that overcometh, this man shall be clothed in white robes; and I will in no wise blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.

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