1 Corinthians 1:20

Tree of Life Version

Where is the wise one? Where is the Torah scholar? Where is the debater of this age? Hasn’t God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

Cross References

2 Samuel 15:31

Then someone told David saying, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” So David prayed, “Adonai, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”

2 Samuel 16:23

Now in those days the counsel that Ahithophel gave was like inquiring for the word of God—so was all of Ahithophel’s counsel both with David and with Absalom.

2 Samuel 17:14

Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For Adonai had ordained to thwart Ahithophel’s good counsel, so that Adonai might bring evil upon Absalom.

2 Samuel 17:23

Now when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, arose, went to his home in his hometown set his house in order, and hanged himself. So he died and was buried in his father’s tomb.

Job 12:17

He leads counselors away stripped and makes judges into fools.

Job 12:20

He silences the lips of trusted advisors and removes the discernment of elders.

Job 12:24

He deprives the heads of the people of earth of understanding, and causes them to wander in a pathless wasteland.

Isaiah 33:18

Your heart will meditate on terror: “Where is the counter?” “Where is the weigher?” “Where is the counter of towers?”

Isaiah 44:25

causing the omens of boasters to fail, making fools of diviners, turning wise men backward and making their knowledge foolish,

Isaiah 53:1

‘Who has believed our report? To whom is the arm of Adonai revealed?

Jeremiah 10:7

Who should not fear You, Ruler of the nations? For it is your due! For among all the wise of the nations and in all their kingdoms, there is none like You.

Matthew 13:22

“But the one sown among the thorns, this is the one who hears the word; and the worries of the world and the seduction of wealth choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

John 12:31

Now is the judgment of this world! Now the prince of this world will be driven out!

Acts 17:18

Also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him. Some were saying, “What’s this babbler trying to say?” while others, “He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign deities”—because he was proclaiming the Good News of Yeshua and the resurrection.

Romans 1:20

His invisible attributes—His eternal power and His divine nature—have been clearly seen ever since the creation of the world, being understood through the things that have been made. So people are without excuse—

Romans 1:22

Claiming to be wise, they became fools.

1 Corinthians 1:19

For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and bring to nothing the understanding of the intelligent.”

1 Corinthians 1:26

For you see your calling, brothers and sisters, that not many are wise according to human standards, not many are powerful, and not many are born well.

1 Corinthians 1:27

Yet God chose the foolish things of the world so He might put to shame the wise; and God chose the weak things of the world so He might put to shame the strong;

1 Corinthians 1:28

and God chose the lowly and despised things of the world, the things that are as nothing, so He might bring to nothing the things that are—

1 Corinthians 11:32

But when we are judged, we are being disciplined by the Lord so that we might not be condemned along with the world.

1 Corinthians 2:6

We do speak wisdom, however, among those who are mature—but not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.

1 Corinthians 2:8

None of the rulers of this age understood it—for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

1 Corinthians 3:18

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks he is wise in this age, let him become a fool so he may become wise.

1 Corinthians 3:19

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

1 Corinthians 6:2

Don’t you know that the kedoshim will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to judge trivial matters?

James 4:4

You adulteresses! Don’t you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.