1 Corinthians 3:19 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁹ For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness,”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ For this world's wisdom is foolishness (absurdity and stupidity) with God, for it is written, He lays hold of the wise in their [own] craftiness; [Job 5:13.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁹ For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He that taketh the wise in their craftiness:

Common English Bible

¹⁹ This world’s wisdom is foolishness to God. As it’s written, “He catches the wise in their cleverness.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁹ For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. And so it has been written: "I will catch the wise in their own astuteness."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁹ For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written: I will catch the wise in their own craftiness.

1 Corinthians 3:19 Cross References

2 Samuel 15:31

David was told that Ahithophel was among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, “O Lord, I pray you, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”

2 Samuel 16:23

Now in those days the counsel that Ahithophel gave was as if one consulted the oracle of God, so all the counsel of Ahithophel was esteemed both by David and by Absalom.

2 Samuel 17:14

Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For the Lord had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, so that the Lord might bring ruin on Absalom.

2 Samuel 17:23

When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey and went off home to his own city. He set his house in order and hanged himself; he died and was buried in the tomb of his father.

Esther 7:10

So they hung Haman on the pole that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the anger of the king abated.

Job 5:13

He takes the wise in their own craftiness, and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end.

Psalm 141:10

Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I alone escape.

Exodus 1:10

Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, or they will increase and, in the event of war, join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land.”

Exodus 18:11

Now I know that the Lord is greater than all gods, because he delivered the people from the Egyptians, when they dealt arrogantly with them.”

Proverbs 14:8

It is the wisdom of the clever to understand where they go, but the folly of fools misleads.

Proverbs 21:30

No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel can avail against the Lord.

Isaiah 44:25

who frustrates the omens of soothsayers and makes fools of diviners; who turns back the wise and makes their knowledge foolish;

1 Corinthians 2:6

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.

1 Corinthians 4:6

I have applied all this to Apollos and myself for your benefit, brothers and sisters, so that you may learn through us what “Not beyond what is written” means, so that none of you will be puffed up in favor of one against another.

Ephesians 4:14

We must no longer be children, tossed to and fro and blown about by every wind of doctrine by people’s trickery, by their craftiness in deceitful scheming;

James 3:15

This is not wisdom that comes down from above but is earthly, unspiritual, devilish.