15. that no one should say that I immersed into my own name.
16. Now I did also immerse the household of Stephanas. For the rest, I do not know whether I immersed anyone else.
17. For Messiah did not send me to immerse, but to bring the Good News, not with wisdom of words, that the stake of Messiah should not be nullified.
18. For the word of the stake is indeed foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of Elohim.
19. For it has been written, “I shall destroy the wisdom of the wise, and set aside the learning of the learned ones.”
20. Where is the wise? Where is the scholar? Where is the debater of this age? Has not Elohim made foolish the wisdom of this world?
21. For since, in the wisdom of Elohim, the world through wisdom did not know Elohim, it pleased Elohim through the foolishness of preaching to save those who believe.
22. And since Yehuḏim ask a sign, and Greeks seek wisdom,
23. yet we proclaim Messiah impaled, to the Yehuḏim a stumbling-block and to the Greeks foolishness,
24. but to those who are called – both Yehuḏim and Greeks – Messiah the power of Elohim and the wisdom of Elohim.
25. For the foolishness of Elohim is wiser than men, and the weakness of Elohim is stronger than men.
26. For look at your calling, brothers, that there were not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble.
27. But Elohim has chosen the foolish matters of the world to put to shame the wise, and Elohim has chosen the weak of the world to put to shame the strong.
28. And Elohim has chosen the low-born of the world and the despised, and the ones that are not, that He might bring to naught the ones that are,
29. so that no flesh should boast in His presence.