1 Corinthians 1:18-24

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

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.

¹⁹ For it is written: I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the prudence of the prudent I will reject.

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?

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.

²² For both the Jews require signs, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:

²³ But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews indeed a stumblingblock, and unto the Gentiles foolishness:

²⁴ But unto them that are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.