'Wisdom' in the Bible

For the Messiah did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, not with eloquent wisdom, so the cross of the Messiah won't be emptied of its power.

For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the intelligence of the intelligent I will reject."

Where is the wise person? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? God has turned the wisdom of the world into nonsense, hasn't he?

For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom did not know God, God was pleased to save those who believe through the nonsense of our preaching.

Jews ask for signs, and Greeks look for wisdom,

but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, the Messiah is God's power and God's wisdom.

For God's nonsense is wiser than human wisdom, and God's weakness is stronger than human strength.

It is because of God that you are in union with the Messiah Jesus, who for us has become wisdom from God, as well as our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption.

When I came to you, brothers, I didn't come and tell you about God's secret with rhetorical language or wisdom.

so that your faith would not be based on human wisdom but on God's power.

However, when we are among mature people, we do speak a message of wisdom, but not the wisdom of this world or of the rulers of this world, who are passing off the scene.

Instead, we speak about God's wisdom in a hidden secret, which God destined before the world began for our glory.

We don't speak about these things with words taught us by human wisdom, but with words taught by the Spirit, as we explain spiritual things to spiritual people.

For the wisdom of this world is nonsense in God's sight. For it is written, "He catches the wise with their own trickery,"

To one has been given a message of wisdom by the Spirit; to another the ability to speak with knowledge according to the same Spirit;