1 Corinthians 1:20

Paul asks where the wise, scribe, and debater now stand, since God has shown the world's wisdom to be foolish. Human learning cannot save or comprehend God's plan.

Cross-references · 15

• Rom 1:22Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
• Job 12:17He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.
• 1 Cor 1:19For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing.”
• 1 Cor 3:19For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He has taken the wise in their craftiness.”
• Job 12:24He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
• Isa 44:25who frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; who turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish;
• 2 Sam 16:23The counsel of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, was as if a man inquired at the inner sanctuary of God. So was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.
• Isa 33:18Your heart will meditate on the terror. Where is he who counted? Where is he who weighed? Where is he who counted the towers?
• 1 Cor 2:6We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown; yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing.
• 2 Sam 17:14Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For Yahweh had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Yahweh might bring evil on Absalom.
• 2 Sam 17:23When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, arose, and went home, to his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.
• Isa 53:1Who has believed our message? To whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed?
• 2 Sam 15:31Someone told David, saying, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” David said, “Yahweh, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”
• Job 12:20He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders.
• Isa 19:11–12The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish. The counsel of the wisest counselors of Pharaoh has become stupid. How do you say to Pharaoh, “I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?”

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