1 Corinthians 1:27

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong;

Cross References

Psalm 8:2

From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength, because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.

Isaiah 29:14

therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men will perish, and the understanding of their prudent men will be hidden.*

Isaiah 29:19

The humble also will increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Yisra'el.

Isaiah 44:25

who frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; who turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish;

Jeremiah 8:9

The wise men are disappointed, they are dismayed and taken: behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what manner of wisdom is in them?

Zephaniah 3:12

But I will leave in the midst of you an afflicted and poor people, and they will take refuge in the name of the LORD.

Numbers 22:30

The donkey said to Bil`am, Am I not your donkey, on which you have ridden all your life long to this day? was I ever wont to do so to you? and he said, No.

Matthew 11:25

At that time, Yeshua answered, *I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.

Matthew 21:16

and said to him, *Do you hear what these are saying?* Yeshua said to them, *Yes. Did you never read, 'Out of the mouth of babes and nursing babies you have perfected praise?'*

Matthew 9:9

As Yeshua passed by from there, he saw a man called Mattityahu sitting at the tax collection office. He said to him, *Follow me.* He got up and followed him.

Luke 21:15

for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.

Acts 17:18

Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, *What does this babbler want to say?* Others said, *He seems to be advocating foreign deities,* because he preached Yeshua and the resurrection.

Acts 7:35

*This Moshe, whom they refused, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge?'--God has sent him as both a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

Acts 7:54

Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.

1 Corinthians 1:20

Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the Torah scholar of this world? Hasn't God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

1 Corinthians 1:21

For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn't know God, it was God's good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.

1 Corinthians 2:12

But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.

2 Corinthians 10:10

For, *His letters,* they say, *are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is despised.*

2 Corinthians 4:7

But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.

James 2:5

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn't God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?