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When God shewed us his wisdom, the world, with all its wisdom, could not find its way to God;✻ and now God would use a foolish thing, our preaching, to save those who will believe in it. (1 Corinthians 1, 21)
Here are the Jews asking for signs and wonders, here are the Greeks intent on their philosophy; (1 Corinthians 1, 22)
Consider, brethren, the circumstances of your own calling; not many of you are wise, in the world’s fashion, not many powerful, not many well born. (1 Corinthians 1, 26)
No, God has chosen what the world holds foolish, so as to abash the wise, God has chosen what the world holds weak, so as to abash the strong.✻ (1 Corinthians 1, 27)
God has chosen what the world holds base and contemptible, nay, has chosen what is nothing, so as to bring to nothing what is now in being; (1 Corinthians 1, 28)
no human creature was to have any ground for boasting, in the presence of God. (1 Corinthians 1, 29)
It is from him that you take your origin, through Christ Jesus, whom God gave us to be all our wisdom, our justification, our sanctification, and our atonement; (1 Corinthians 1, 30)
so that the scripture might be fulfilled, If anyone boasts, let him make his boast in the Lord.✻ (1 Corinthians 1, 31)
So it was, brethren, that when I came to you and preached Christ’s message to you, I did so without any high pretensions to eloquence, or to philosophy. (1 Corinthians 2, 1)
There is, to be sure, a wisdom which we make known among those who are fully grounded; but it is not the wisdom of this world, or of this world’s rulers, whose power is to be abrogated. (1 Corinthians 2, 6)
What we make known is the wisdom of God, his secret, kept hidden till now; so, before the ages, God had decreed, reserving glory for us. (1 Corinthians 2, 7)
(None of the rulers of this world could read his secret, or they would not have crucified him to whom all glory belongs.) (1 Corinthians 2, 8)