001:022 For Jews ask for signs, Greeks seek after wisdom, 001:023 but we preach Christ crucified; a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks, 001:024 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God. 001:025 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. 001:026 For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble; 001:027 but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong; 001:028 and God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that are not, that he might bring to nothing the things that are: 001:029 that no flesh should boast before God. 001:030 But of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption: 001:031 that, according as it is written, "He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord."{Jeremiah 9:24} 002:001 When I came to you, brothers, I didn't come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. 002:002 For I determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified. 002:003 I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling. 002:004 My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, 002:005 that your faith wouldn't stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. 002:006 We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown; yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing. 002:007 But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory, 002:008 which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn't have crucified the Lord of glory. 002:009 But as it is written, "Things which an eye didn't see, and an ear didn't hear, which didn't enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him."{Isaiah 64:4} 002:010 But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. 002:011 For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God, except God's Spirit. 002:012 But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God. 002:013 Which things also we speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches,