Job 32:13
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13 Beware (A)lest you say, ‘We have found wisdom;
God may vanquish him, not a man.’
Jeremiah 9:23
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23 Thus says the Lord: (A)“Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches,
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1 Corinthians 3:18
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18 (A)Let no one deceive himself. (B)If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise.
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1 Corinthians 1:27-29
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27 But (A)God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; (B)God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; 28 God chose what is low and despised in the world, even (C)things that are not, to (D)bring to nothing things that are, 29 so (E)that no human being[a] might boast in the presence of God.
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- 1 Corinthians 1:29 Greek no flesh
1 Corinthians 1:19-21
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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.”
20 (B)Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? (C)Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach[a] to save those who believe.
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- 1 Corinthians 1:21 Or the folly of preaching
John 19:11
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11 Jesus answered him, (A)“You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above. Therefore (B)he who delivered me over to you (C)has the greater sin.”
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Zechariah 12:7
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7 “And the Lord will give salvation to the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem may not surpass that of Judah.
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Ezekiel 28:3
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Isaiah 48:7
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7 They are created now, not long ago;
before today you have never heard of them,
lest you should say, ‘Behold, I knew them.’
Isaiah 48:5
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5 (A)I declared them to you from of old,
before they came to pass I announced them to you,
lest you should say, (B)‘My idol did them,
my carved image and my metal image commanded them.’
Isaiah 5:21
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21 Woe to those who are (A)wise in their own eyes,
and shrewd in their own sight!
Job 19:21
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21 Have mercy on me, have mercy on me, O you my friends,
for the hand of God has (A)touched me!
Job 19:6
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6 know then that God has (A)put me in the wrong
and closed his net about me.
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