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Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How inscrutable are his judgments and how unsearchable his ways! (Romans 11, 33)
For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with the wisdom of human eloquence, so that the cross of Christ might not be emptied of its meaning. (1 Corinthians 1, 17)
For it is written: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the learning of the learned I will set aside." (1 Corinthians 1, 19)
Where is the wise one? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made the wisdom of the world foolish? (1 Corinthians 1, 20)
For since in the wisdom of God the world did not come to know God through wisdom, it was the will of God through the foolishness of the proclamation to save those who have faith. (1 Corinthians 1, 21)
For Jews demand signs and Greeks look for wisdom, (1 Corinthians 1, 22)
but to those who are called, Jews and Greeks alike, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. (1 Corinthians 1, 24)
For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength. (1 Corinthians 1, 25)
It is due to him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, as well as righteousness, sanctification, and redemption, (1 Corinthians 1, 30)
When I came to you, brothers, proclaiming the mystery of God, I did not come with sublimity of words or of wisdom. (1 Corinthians 2, 1)
and my message and my proclamation were not with persuasive (words of) wisdom, but with a demonstration of spirit and power, (1 Corinthians 2, 4)
so that your faith might rest not on human wisdom but on the power of God. (1 Corinthians 2, 5)