1 Corinthians 1:17; 1 Corinthians 1:19; 1 Corinthians 1:20; 1 Corinthians 1:21; 1 Corinthians 1:22; 1 Corinthians 1:24; 1 Corinthians 1:30; 1 Corinthians 2:1; 1 Corinthians 2:4; 1 Corinthians 2:5; 1 Corinthians 2:6; 1 Corinthians 2:7; 1 Corinthians 2:13; 1 Corinthians 3:19; 1 Corinthians 12:8

1 Corinthians 1:17

17 For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel—not with wisdom and eloquence, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.

1 Corinthians 1:19

19 For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”

1 Corinthians 1:20

20 Where is the wise person? Where is the teacher of the law? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

1 Corinthians 1:21

21 For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe.

1 Corinthians 1:22

22 Jews demand signs and Greeks look for wisdom,

1 Corinthians 1:24

24 but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.

1 Corinthians 1:30

30 It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption.

1 Corinthians 2:1

1 And so it was with me, brothers and sisters. When I came to you, I did not come with eloquence or human wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.

1 Corinthians 2:4

4 My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power,

1 Corinthians 2:5

5 so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power.

1 Corinthians 2:6

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

1 Corinthians 2:7

7 No, we declare God’s wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began.

1 Corinthians 2:13

13 This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.

1 Corinthians 3:19

19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness” ;

1 Corinthians 12:8

8 To one there is given through the Spirit a message of wisdom, to another a message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit,