1 Corinthians 1:20
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20 (A)Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? (B)Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
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Romans 1:22
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22 (A)Claiming to be wise, they became fools,
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1 Corinthians 1:19
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19 For it is written,
(A)“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.”
Job 12:17
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Isaiah 44:25
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25 who frustrates the signs of liars
and makes fools of diviners,
(A)who turns wise men back
and makes their knowledge foolish,
Isaiah 33:18
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18 (A)Your heart will muse on the terror:
“Where is he who counted, where is (B)he who weighed the tribute?
Where is (C)he who counted the towers?”
1 Corinthians 3:19
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19 For (A)the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, (B)“He catches the wise in their craftiness,”
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1 Corinthians 2:6
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Wisdom from the Spirit
6 Yet among (A)the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not (B)a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, (C)who are doomed to pass away.
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Isaiah 53:1
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53 (A)Who has believed what he has heard from us?[a]
And to whom has (B)the arm of the Lord been revealed?
Footnotes
- Isaiah 53:1 Or Who has believed what we have heard?
Job 12:24
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24 He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth
and (A)makes them wander in a trackless waste.
Job 12:20
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20 He deprives of speech those who are trusted
(A)and takes away the discernment of the elders.
2 Samuel 17:23
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23 When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey and went off home to (A)his own city. He (B)set his house in order and (C)hanged himself, and he died and was buried in the tomb of his father.
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2 Samuel 17:14
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14 And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” (A)For the Lord had ordained[a] to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, so that the Lord might bring harm upon Absalom.
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- 2 Samuel 17:14 Hebrew commanded
2 Samuel 16:23
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23 Now in those days the counsel that Ahithophel gave was as if one consulted the word of God; so was all the counsel of Ahithophel esteemed, (A)both by David and by Absalom.
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2 Samuel 15:31
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31 And it was told David, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” And David said, “O Lord, please (A)turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”
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Isaiah 19:11-12
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11 The princes of (A)Zoan are utterly foolish;
the wisest counselors of Pharaoh give stupid counsel.
How can you say to Pharaoh,
“I am a son of the wise,
a son of ancient kings”?
12 Where then are your (B)wise men?
Let them tell you
that they might know what the Lord of hosts has purposed against Egypt.
The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.
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