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20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this [a]world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21 For seeing that in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom knew not God, it was God’s good pleasure through the foolishness of the [b]preaching to save them that believe. 22 Seeing that Jews ask for signs, and Greeks seek after wisdom:

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  1. 1 Corinthians 1:20 Or, age
  2. 1 Corinthians 1:21 Greek thing preached.

20 Where does that leave the philosopher, the Torah-teacher, or any of today’s thinkers? Hasn’t God made this world’s wisdom look pretty foolish? 21 For God’s wisdom ordained that the world, using its own wisdom, would not come to know him. Therefore God decided to use the “nonsense” of what we proclaim as his means of saving those who come to trust in it. 22 Precisely because Jews ask for signs and Greeks try to find wisdom,

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