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?

For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, God decided, through the foolishness of the proclamation, to save those who believe.

Now we have received not the spirit of the world but the Spirit that is from God, so that we may understand the gifts bestowed on us by God.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness,”

For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, as though sentenced to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels and to humans.

when slandered, we speak kindly. We have become like the rubbish of the world, the dregs of all things, to this very day.

not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since you would then need to go out of the world.

and those who deal with the world as though they had no dealings with it. For the present form of this world is passing away.

but the married man is anxious about the affairs of the world, how to please his wife,

and his interests are divided. And the unmarried woman and the virgin are anxious about the affairs of the Lord, so that they may be holy in body and spirit, but the married woman is anxious about the affairs of the world, how to please her husband.

Hence, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that “no idol in the world really exists” and that “there is no God but one.”

There are doubtless many different kinds of sounds in the world, and nothing is without sound.