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1 Corinthians 1:20

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Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

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The surrounding passage

  1. 1 Corinthians 1:18

    For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.

  2. 1 Corinthians 1:19

    For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.

  3. 1 Corinthians 1:21

    For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.

  4. 1 Corinthians 1:22

    For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:

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