Power and Wisdom of God, Christ Crucified

Foolishness

The Lexham English Bible Chapter 1

Christ Crucified, the Power and Wisdom of God

The Lexham English Bible Chapter 1

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

For it is written,

“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,

and the intelligence of the intelligent I will confound.”

W. Hall Harris III et al., eds., The Lexham English Bible (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2012), 1 Co 1:19.

The Lexham English Bible Chapter 1

20 Where is the wise person?

The Lexham English Bible Chapter 1

Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom did not know God, God was pleased through the foolishness of preaching to save those who believe.

The Lexham English Bible Chapter 1

22 For indeed, Jews ask for sign miracles and Greeks seek wisdom, 23 but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a cause for stumbling, but to the Gentiles foolishness, 24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25 For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.