1 Corinthians 1: 17 - 25
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For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.
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| 18
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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.
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| 19
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For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the cleverness of the clever I will thwart."
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| 20
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Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
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| 21
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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.
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| 22
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For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom,
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but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles,
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| 24
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but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
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| 25
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For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
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