English Standard Version

1 Corinthians 1:19-23 English Standard Version (ESV)

19. For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.”

20. Where is the one who is wise? 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 did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.

22. For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom,

23. but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles,