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For God's "nonsense" is wiser than humanity's "wisdom." And God's "weakness" is stronger than humanity's "strength."

It is his doing that you are united with the Messiah Yeshua. He has become wisdom for us from God, and righteousness and holiness and redemption as well!

As for me, brothers, when I arrived among you, it was not with surpassing eloquence or wisdom that I came announcing to you the previously concealed truth about God;

for I had decided that while I was with you I would forget everything except Yeshua the Messiah, and even him only as someone who had been executed on a stake as a criminal.

Yet there is a wisdom that we are speaking to those who are mature enough for it. But it is not the wisdom of this world or of this world's leaders, who are in the process of passing away.

But, as the Tanakh says, "No eye has seen, no ear has heard and no one's heart has imagined all the things that God has prepared for those who love him."

It is to us, however, that God has revealed these things. How? Through the Spirit. For the Spirit probes all things, even the profoundest depths of God.

For who knows the inner workings of a person except the person's own spirit inside him? So too no one knows the inner workings of God except God's Spirit.

For who has known the mind of Adonai ? Who will counsel him? But we have the mind of the Messiah!

As for me, brothers, I couldn't talk to you as spiritual people but as worldly people, as babies, so far as experience with the Messiah is concerned.

I gave you milk, not solid food, because you were not yet ready for it. But you aren't ready for it now either!

For you are still worldly! Isn't it obvious from all the jealousy and quarrelling among you that you are worldly and living by merely human standards?

For when one says, "I follow Sha'ul" and another, "I follow Apollos," aren't you being merely human?

For we are God's co-workers; you are God's field, God's building.

For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Yeshua the Messiah.

But each one's work will be shown for what it is; the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire — the fire will test the quality of each one's work.

So if anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and you yourselves are that temple.

For the wisdom of this world is nonsense, as far as God is concerned; inasmuch as the Tanakh says, " He traps the wise in their own cleverness ,"

So let no one boast about human beings, for all things are yours —

So don't pronounce judgment prematurely, before the Lord comes; for he will bring to light what is now hidden in darkness; he will expose the motives of people's hearts; and then each will receive from God whatever praise he deserves.