1 Corinthians 1:26
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26 Consider your own call, brothers and sisters: not many of you were wise by human standards,[a] not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth.(A)
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- 1.26 Gk according to the flesh
James 2:5
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5 Listen, my beloved brothers and sisters. Has not God chosen the poor in the world to be rich in faith and to be heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him?(A)
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1 Corinthians 3:18-20
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18 Do not deceive yourselves. If you think that you are wise in this age, you should become fools so that you may become wise.(A) 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written,
“He catches the wise in their craftiness,”(B)
20 and again,
“The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise,
that they are futile.”
1 Corinthians 2:8
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8 and which none of the rulers of this age understood, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
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Luke 18:24-25
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24 Jesus looked at him[a] and said, “How hard it is for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!(A) 25 Indeed, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”
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- 18.24 Other ancient authorities read saw that he had become sad
James 1:9-11
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Poverty and Riches
9 Let the brother or sister of humble means boast in having a high position 10 and the rich in having been humbled, because the rich will disappear like a flower in the field.(A) 11 For the sun rises with its scorching heat and withers the field; its flower falls, and its beauty perishes. It is the same way with the rich; in the midst of a busy life, they will wither away.
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Matthew 11:25-26
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Jesus Thanks His Father
25 At that time Jesus said, “I thank[a] you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and the intelligent and have revealed them to infants;(A) 26 yes, Father, for such was your gracious will.[b]
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1 Corinthians 1:20
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20 Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scholar? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?(A)
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Luke 10:21
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Jesus Rejoices
21 At that very hour Jesus[a] rejoiced in the Holy Spirit[b] and said, “I thank[c] you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and the intelligent and have revealed them to infants; yes, Father, for such was your gracious will.[d](A)
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Luke 1:3
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3 I, too, decided, as one having a grasp of everything from the start,[a] to write a well-ordered account for you, most excellent Theophilus,(A)
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- 1.3 Or for a long time
2 John 1
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Salutation
1 The elder to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth, and not only I but also all who know the truth,(A)
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James 3:13-17
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Two Kinds of Wisdom
13 Who is wise and knowledgeable among you? Show by your good life that your works are done with gentleness born of wisdom.(A) 14 But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not be arrogant and lie about the truth. 15 This is not wisdom that comes down from above but is earthly, unspiritual, devilish.(B) 16 For where there is envy and selfish ambition, there will also be disorder and wickedness of every kind.(C) 17 But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without a trace of partiality or hypocrisy.(D)
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1 Corinthians 2:3-6
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3 And I came to you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling. 4 My speech and my proclamation were made not with persuasive words of wisdom[a] but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power,(A) 5 so that your faith might rest not on human wisdom but on the power of God.
The True Wisdom of God
6 Yet among the mature we do speak wisdom, though it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are being destroyed.(B)
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- 2.4 Other ancient authorities read the persuasiveness of wisdom
Acts 17:34
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34 But some of them joined him and became believers, including Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris and others with them.
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Acts 13:12
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12 When the proconsul saw what had happened, he believed, for he was astonished at the teaching about the Lord.
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John 19:38-39
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The Burial of Jesus
38 After these things, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, though a secret one because of his fear of the Jews, asked Pilate to let him take away the body of Jesus. Pilate gave him permission, so he came and removed his body. 39 Nicodemus, who had at first come to Jesus by night, also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, weighing about a hundred pounds.(A)
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John 7:47-49
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47 Then the Pharisees replied, “Surely you have not been deceived, too, have you? 48 Has any one of the authorities or of the Pharisees believed in him?(A) 49 But this crowd, which does not know the law, they are accursed.”
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John 4:46-53
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Jesus Heals an Official’s Son
46 Then he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had changed the water into wine. Now there was a royal official whose son lay ill in Capernaum.(A) 47 When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went and begged him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.(B) 48 Then Jesus said to him, “Unless you[a] see signs and wonders you will not believe.”(C) 49 The official said to him, “Sir,[b] come down before my little boy dies.” 50 Jesus said to him, “Go; your son will live.”[c] The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and started on his way. 51 As he was going down, his slaves met him and told him that his child was alive. 52 So he asked them the hour when he began to recover, and they said to him, “Yesterday at one in the afternoon the fever left him.” 53 The father realized that this was the hour when Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.”[d] So he himself believed, along with his whole household.(D)
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Zephaniah 3:12
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12 For I will leave in the midst of you
a people humble and lowly.
They shall seek refuge in the name of the Lord—(A)
Philippians 4:22
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22 All the saints greet you, especially those of the emperor’s household.
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1 Corinthians 2:13
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13 And we speak of these things in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual things to those who are spiritual.[a](A)
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- 2.13 Or interpreting spiritual things spiritually or comparing spiritual things with spiritual
Acts 13:7
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7 He was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man who summoned Barnabas and Saul and wanted to hear the word of God.(A)
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