1 Corinthians 3:19

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, *He has taken the wise in their craftiness.*

Cross References

2 Samuel 15:31

One told David, saying, Achitofel is among the conspirators with Avshalom. David said, LORD, please turn the counsel of Achitofel into foolishness.

2 Samuel 16:23

The counsel of Achitofel, which he gave in those days, was as if a man inquired at the oracle of God: so was all the counsel of Achitofel both with David and with Avshalom.

2 Samuel 17:14

Avshalom and all the men of Yisra'el said, The counsel of Chushai the Arki is better than the counsel of Achitofel. For the LORD had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Achitofel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil on Avshalom.

2 Samuel 17:23

When Achitofel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, and arose, and got him home, to his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.

Esther 7:10

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

Job 5:13

He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

Psalm 141:10

Let the wicked fall together into their own nets, while I pass by.

Exodus 1:10

Come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that when any war breaks out, they also join themselves to our enemies, and fight against us, and escape out of the land.*

Exodus 18:11

Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods because of the thing in which they dealt arrogantly against them.*

Proverbs 14:8

The wisdom of the prudent is to think about 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

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

1 Corinthians 2:6

We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown; yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing.

1 Corinthians 4:6

Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.

Ephesians 4:14

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

James 3:15

This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.