1 Corinthians 1:18-22

For the message of the cross is nonsense to those who are lost, but it's the power of God to those of us who are saved.

As Scripture says, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will wipe out the cleverness of the clever.”

So how about the wise, the writers, and the philosophers of this age? Hasn't God turned the wisdom of this world into foolishness?

Since God in his wisdom allowed the world in its wisdom not to know God, it was God's gracious plan that by the foolishness of the good news those who trusted in him would be saved.

The Jews ask for miraculous signs, and Greeks look for wisdom,