Study Desk

I thank God that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius,

For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but it is the power of God to us who are being saved.

Where is the one who is wise? Where is the teacher of the law? Where is the debater of this age? Hasn’t God made the world’s wisdom foolish?

For since, in God’s wisdom, the world did not know God through wisdom, God was pleased to save those who believe through the foolishness of what is preached.

Yet to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God,

Instead, God has chosen what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen what is weak in the world to shame the strong.

God has chosen what is insignificant and despised in the world—what is viewed as nothing—to bring to nothing what is viewed as something,

It is from him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became wisdom from God for us—our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption,

When I came to you, brothers and sisters, announcing the mystery of God to you, I did not come with brilliance of speech or wisdom.

On the contrary, we speak God’s hidden wisdom in a mystery, a wisdom God predestined before the ages for our glory.

Now God has revealed these things to us by the Spirit, since the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.

For who knows a person’s thoughts except his spirit within him? In the same way, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.

Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who comes from God, so that we may understand what has been freely given to us by God.

I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.

So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.

Don’t you yourselves know that you are God’s temple and that the Spirit of God lives in you?

If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, and that is what you are.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, since it is written, He catches the wise in their craftiness;

and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.

A person should think of us in this way: as servants of Christ and managers of the mysteries of God.