001:020 Where is your wise man? Where your expounder of the Law? Where your investigator of the questions of this present age? Has not God shown the world's wisdom to be utter foolishness? 001:021 For after the world by its wisdom--as God in His wisdom had ordained-- had failed to gain the knowledge of God, God was pleased, by the apparent foolishness of the Message which we preach, to save those who accepted it. 001:022 Seeing that Jews demand miracles, and Greeks go in search of wisdom, 001:023 while we proclaim a Christ who has been crucified--to the Jews a stumbling-block, to Gentiles foolishness, 001:024 but to those who have received the Call, whether Jews or Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 001:025 Because that which the world deems foolish in God is wiser than men's wisdom, and that which it deems feeble in God is mightier than men's might. 001:026 For consider, brethren, God's call to you. Not many who are wise with merely human wisdom, not many of position and influence, not many of noble birth have been called. 001:027 But God has chosen the things which the world regards as foolish, in order to put its wise men to shame; and God has chosen the things which the world regards as destitute of influence, in order to put its powerful things to shame; 001:028 and the things which the world regards as base, and those which it sets utterly at nought--things that have no existence-- God has chosen in order to reduce to nothing things that do exist; 001:029 to prevent any mortal man from boasting in the presence of God. 001:030 But you--and it is all God's doing--are in Christ Jesus: He has become for us a wisdom which is from God, consisting of righteousness and sanctification and deliverance; 001:031 in order that it may be as Scripture says, "He who boasts-- let his boast be in the Lord." 002:001 And as for myself, brethren, when I came to you, it was not with surpassing power of eloquence or earthly wisdom that I came, announcing to you that which God had commanded me to bear witness to. 002:002 For I determined to be utterly ignorant, when among you, of everything except of Jesus Christ, and of Him as having been crucified. 002:003 And so far as I myself was concerned, I came to you in conscious feebleness and in fear and in deep anxiety. 002:004 And my language and the Message that I proclaimed were not adorned with persuasive words of earthly wisdom, but depended upon truths which the Spirit taught and mightily carried home; 002:005 so that your trust might rest not on the wisdom of man but on the power of God.