1 Corinthians 1:21
“For after that, in the wisedom of God, the world by wisedome knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishnesse of preaching, to saue them that beleeue.”
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1 Corinthians 1:21 Context
19For it is written, I will destroy the wisedome of the wise, and wil bring to nothing the vnderstanding of the prudent. 20Where is the wise? where is the Scribe? where is the disputer of this world? Hath not God made foolish the wisedome of this world? 21For after that, in the wisedom of God, the world by wisedome knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishnesse of preaching, to saue them that beleeue. 22For the Iewes require a signe, and the Greekes seeke after wisedome. 23But wee preach Christ crucified, vnto the Iewes a stumbling block, and vnto the Greekes, foolishnesse:
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For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
- King James Version
For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not {come to} know God, God was well-pleased through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe.
- New American Standard Version (1995)