1 Corinthians 3:19 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁹ For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He that taketh 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

And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O LORD, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.

2 Samuel 16:23

And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he counselled in those days, was as if a man inquired at the oracle of God: so was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.

2 Samuel 17:14

And 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, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom.

2 Samuel 17:23

And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home, unto his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.

Esther 7:10

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.

Job 5:13

He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: And the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.

Psalm 141:10

Let the wicked fall into their own nets, Whilst that I withal escape.

Exodus 1:10

come, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they also join themselves unto our enemies, and fight against us, and get them up out of the land.

Exodus 18:11

Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods: yea, in the thing wherein they dealt proudly against them.

Proverbs 14:8

The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: But the folly of fools is deceit.

Proverbs 21:30

There is no wisdom nor understanding Nor counsel against the LORD.

Isaiah 44:25

that frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish:

1 Corinthians 2:6

Howbeit we speak wisdom among the perfect: yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, which are coming to nought:

1 Corinthians 4:6

Now these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes; that in us ye might learn not to go beyond the things which are written; that no one of you be puffed up for the one against the other.

Ephesians 4:14

that we may be no longer children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

James 3:15

This wisdom is not a wisdom that cometh down from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.