1 Corinthians 1:20 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

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?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ Where is the wise man (the philosopher)? Where is the scribe (the scholar)? Where is the investigator (the logician, the debater) of this present time and age? Has not God shown up the nonsense and the folly of this world's wisdom?

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

Common English Bible

²⁰ Where are the wise? Where are the legal experts? Where are today’s debaters? Hasn’t God made the wisdom of the world foolish?

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ Where are the wise? Where are the scribes? Where are the truth-seekers of this age? Has not God made the wisdom of this world into foolishness?

1 Corinthians 1:20 Tagairtí Cros

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.

Job 12:17

He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.

Job 12:20

He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders.

Job 12:24

He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

Isaiah 33:18

Your heart will meditate on the terror. Where is he who counted? Where is he who weighed? Where is he who counted the towers?

Isaiah 44:25

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

Isaiah 53:1

Who has believed our message? and to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?

Jeremiah 10:7

Who should not fear you, King of the nations? for to you does it appertain; because among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their royal estate, there is none like you.

Matthew 13:22

What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

John 12:31

Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out.

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.

Romans 1:20

For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse.

Romans 1:22

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

1 Corinthians 1:19

For it is written, *I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing.*

1 Corinthians 1:26

For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble;

1 Corinthians 1:27

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;

1 Corinthians 1:28

and God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that are not, that he might bring to nothing the things that are:

1 Corinthians 11:32

But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

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 2:8

which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn't have crucified the Lord of glory.

1 Corinthians 3:18

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

1 Corinthians 3:19

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

1 Corinthians 6:2

Don't you know that the holy ones will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

James 4:4

You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.