1 Corinthians 3:19

Lighthouse Bible 2006

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

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 you, 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 had 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 appointed 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 donkey, and arose, and went home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulcher of his father.

Esther 7:10

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

Job 5:13

He takes the wise in their own craftiness: and the plan of the perverse is interrupted.

Psalm 141:10

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

Exodus 1:10

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

Exodus 18:11

Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods: for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly he was above 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

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

1 Corinthians 2:6

However we speak wisdom among those who are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nothing:

1 Corinthians 4:6

And these things, brethren, I have in an illustration transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that you might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.

Ephesians 4:14

That we from this time on be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried around with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, and cleverness, by which they lie in wait to deceive;

James 3:15

This wisdom does not descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.