1 Corinthians 2:6

Paul does proclaim a genuine wisdom, but only the mature grasp it, and it is not the passing wisdom of this age. The gospel is the deepest wisdom, though hidden from the world.

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• Heb 5:14But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.
• Jas 3:15This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.
• 2 Cor 4:4in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.
• 1 Cor 1:28and God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that are not, that he might bring to nothing the things that are:
• 1 Cor 1:18–20For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are saved it is the power of God.
• 1 Pet 5:10But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.
• 1 Cor 2:8which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn’t have crucified the Lord of glory.
• Phil 3:12–15Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, if it is so that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.
• Eph 2:2in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience;
• Ps 2:1–6Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
• Col 4:12Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
• Matt 5:48Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.
• Eph 4:11–13He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers;
• Isa 19:11–13The 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?”
• 2 Cor 1:12For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
• Job 12:19He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.
• Ps 33:10Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.
• Job 1:1There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.
• Job 12:21He pours contempt on princes, and loosens the belt of the strong.
• Matt 13:22What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.
• 1 Cor 2:1When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.
• 1 Cor 2:13Which things also we speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.
• 1 Cor 14:20Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.
• Matt 19:21Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”
• Luke 16:8“His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.
• 2 Cor 13:11Finally, brothers, rejoice. Be perfected, be comforted, be of the same mind, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.
• Ps 37:37Mark the perfect man, and see the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.
• Isa 40:23who brings princes to nothing; who makes the judges of the earth like meaningless.
• Acts 4:25–28who by the mouth of your servant, David, said, ‘Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
• Jas 3:2For in many things we all stumble. If anyone doesn’t stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.

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