1 Corinthians 1:22-31 ▼

22 Since also Jews ask for signs and Greeks search for wisdom,

23 we, however, preach Christ having been crucified, a stumbling block indeed to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,

24 but to those called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.

25 For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God stronger than men.

26 For consider your⁺ calling, brothers, that not many were wise according to the flesh, not many powerful, not many of noble birth.

27 But God chose the foolish things of the world so that He might shame the wise; and God chose the weak things of the world so that He might shame the strong;

28 and the lowborn of the world, and the things being despised, God also chose—the things not being—that He might nullify the things being,

29 so that not any flesh might boast before God.

30 But out of Him you⁺ are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

31 so that, as it has been written: “The one boasting, let him boast in the Lord.”