tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8382259676216670054.post-4586613692646230922008-07-24T06:00:00.000-07:002008-07-24T06:00:01.238-07:00<p><span class="verse-num" id="v46001018-1">18 </span>For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. <span class="verse-num" id="v46001019-1">19 </span>For it is written,</p> <div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group">“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,<br /><span class="indent"></span>and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.”</p> </div> <p class="same-paragraph"><span class="verse-num" id="v46001020-1">20 </span>Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? <span class="verse-num" id="v46001021-1">21 </span>For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe. <span class="verse-num" id="v46001022-1">22 </span>For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, <span class="verse-num" id="v46001023-1">23 </span>but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, <span class="verse-num" id="v46001024-1">24 </span>but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. <span class="verse-num" id="v46001025-1">25 </span>For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.</p> <p><span class="verse-num" id="v46001026-1">26 </span>For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards,<span class="footnote"> <a href="http://www.gnpcb.org/esv/search/?q=1+corinthians#f2" id="b2" title="Greek 'according to the flesh'">[2]</a></span> not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. <span class="verse-num" id="v46001027-1">27 </span>But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; <span class="verse-num" id="v46001028-1">28 </span>God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, <span class="verse-num" id="v46001029-1">29 </span>so that no human being<span class="footnote"> <a href="http://www.gnpcb.org/esv/search/?q=1+corinthians#f3" id="b3" title="Greek 'no flesh'">[3]</a></span> might boast in the presence of God. <span class="verse-num" id="v46001030-1">30 </span>And because of him<span class="footnote"> <a href="http://www.gnpcb.org/esv/search/?q=1+corinthians#f4" id="b4" title="Greek 'And from him'">[4]</a></span> you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, <span class="verse-num" id="v46001031-1">31 </span>so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”</p>Brian Colmerynoreply@blogger.com