1 Corinthians 1:19-24

Thomson(i) 19 For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and abolish the understanding of the prudent." 20 Where is the wise? Where the scribe? Where the disputer of this age? Hath not God shewn the wisdom of this world to be folly? 21 For when, amidst the wisdom of God, the world did not, by means of that wisdom, know God; it pleased God by the foolishness of this proclamation to save them who believe; 22 so when the Jews demand a sign and the Greeks seek wisdom, 23 as for us, we proclaim a crucified Christ; to the Jews indeed a stumbling block, and to the Greeks foolishness; 24 but to them who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God;