'Wisdom' in the Bible
For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will thwart the cleverness of the intelligent."
Where is the wise man? Where is the expert in the Mosaic law? Where is the debater of this age? Has God not made the wisdom of the world foolish?
For since in the wisdom of God the world by its wisdom did not know God, God was pleased to save those who believe by the foolishness of preaching.
For Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks ask for wisdom,
But to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God.
For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.
He is the reason you have a relationship with Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,
When I came to you, brothers and sisters, I did not come with superior eloquence or wisdom as I proclaimed the testimony of God.
My conversation and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
so that your faith would not be based on human wisdom but on the power of God.
Now we do speak wisdom among the mature, but not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are perishing.
Instead we speak the wisdom of God, hidden in a mystery, that God determined before the ages for our glory.
And we speak about these things, not with words taught us by human wisdom, but with those taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual things to spiritual people.
For the wisdom of this age is foolishness with God. As it is written, "He catches the wise in their craftiness."
For one person is given through the Spirit the message of wisdom, and another the message of knowledge according to the same Spirit,
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