1:16. And I baptized also the household of Stephanus. Besides, I know not whether I baptized any other. 1:17. For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not in wisdom of speech, lest the cross of Christ should be made void. 1:18. For the word of the cross, to them indeed that perish, is foolishness: but to them that are saved, that is, to us, it is the power of God. 1:19. For it is written: I will destroy the wisdom of the wise: and the prudence of the prudent I will reject. 1:20. Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this world? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? 1:21. For, seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world, by wisdom, knew not God, it pleased God, by the foolishness of our preaching, to save them that believe. 1:22. For both the Jews require signs: and the Greeks seek after wisdom. 1:23. But we preach Christ crucified: unto the Jews indeed a stumblingblock, and unto the Gentiles foolishness: 1:24. But unto them that are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ, the power of God and the wisdom of God. 1:25. For the foolishness of God is wiser than men: and the weakness of God is stronger than men. The foolishness, etc... That is to say, what appears foolish to the world in the ways of God, is indeed most wise; and what appears weak is indeed above all the strength and comprehension of man. 1:26. For see your vocation, brethren, that there are not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble. 1:27. But the foolish things of the world hath God chosen, that he may confound the wise: and the weak things of the world hath God chosen, that he may confound the strong. 1:28. And the base things of the world and the things that are contemptible, hath God chosen: and things that are not, that he might bring to nought things that are: 1:29. That no flesh should glory in his sight. 1:30. But of him are you in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom and justice and sanctification and redemption: 1:31. That, as it is written: He that glorieth may glory in the Lord. 1 Corinthians Chapter 2 His preaching was not in loftiness of words, but in spirit and power. And the wisdom he taught was not to be understood by the worldly wise or sensual man, but only by the spiritual man. 2:1. And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not in loftiness of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of Christ. 2:2. For I judged not myself to know anything among you, but Jesus Christ: and him crucified. 2:3. And I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling. 2:4. And my speech and my preaching was not in the persuasive words of human wisdom, but in shewing of the Spirit and power: 2:5. That your faith might not stand on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God. 2:6. Howbeit we speak wisdom among the perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, neither of the princes of this world that come to nought.