Study Desk

Where is the wise? Where the scribe? Where the lawyer of this world? Did God not make the wisdom of this world foolish?

For since in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom did not know God, God was pleased through the foolishness of preaching to save the ones believing.

but to the called out ones, both to Jews and to Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God;

because the foolish thing of God is wiser than men, and the weak thing of God is stronger than men.

But God chose the foolish things of the world that the wise might be put to shame, and God chose the weak things of the world so that He might put to shame the strong things.

And God chose the low-born of the world, and the despised, and the things that are not, so that He might bring to nothing the things that are,

But of Him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, both righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

And when I came to you, brothers, I did not come with excellency of word or wisdom, declaring to you the Testimony of God.

that your faith might not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, having been hidden, which God predetermined before the ages for our glory,

according as it has been written, "Eye has not seen, and ear has not heard," nor has it risen up into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for those that love Him. Isa. 64:4

But God revealed them to us by His Spirit, for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.

For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of a man within him? So also no one has known the things of God except the Spirit of God.

But we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit from God, so that we might know the things that are freely given to us by God.

But a natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he is not able to know them , because they are spiritually discerned.

I planted, Apollos watered, but God made to grow.

So as neither he planting is anything, nor he watering, but God making to grow.

For of God we are fellow-workers, a field of God, and you are a building of God.

Do you not know that you are a sanctuary of God, and the Spirit of God dwells in you?

If anyone corrupts the sanctuary of God, God will bring that one to corruption; for the sanctuary of God is holy, which you are.