18. For the message about Christ's death on the cross is nonsense to those who are being lost; but for us who are being saved it is God's power.
19. The scripture says:“I will destroy the wisdom of the wiseand set aside the understanding of the scholars.”
20. So then, where does that leave the wise? or the scholars? or the skilful debaters of this world? God has shown that this world's wisdom is foolishness!
21. For God in his wisdom made it impossible for people to know him by means of their own wisdom. Instead, by means of the so-called “foolish” message we preach, God decided to save those who believe.
22. Jews want miracles for proof, and Greeks look for wisdom.