²⁵ For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be ^(A)wise in your own ^[a]opinion, that ^(B)blindness in part has happened to Israel ^(C)until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. ²⁶ And so all Israel will be ^[b]saved, as it is written:

²⁸ Concerning the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but concerning the election they are ^(F)beloved for the sake of the fathers. ²⁹ For the gifts and the calling of God are ^(G)irrevocable. ³⁰ For as you ^(H)were once disobedient to God, yet have now obtained mercy through their disobedience, ³¹ even so these also have now been disobedient, that through the mercy shown you they also may obtain mercy. ³² For God has ^[c]committed them ^(I)all to disobedience, that He might have mercy on all.

^20 (A)Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the ^[a]disputer of this age? ^(B)Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? ²¹ For since, in the ^(C)wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe. ²² For ^(D)Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom; ²³ but we preach Christ crucified, ^(E)to the Jews a ^[b]stumbling block and to the ^[c]Greeks ^(F)foolishness, ²⁴ but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ ^(G)the power of God and ^(H)the wisdom of God. ²⁵ Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

Glory Only in the Lord

²⁶ For ^[d]you see your calling, brethren, ^(I)that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many ^[e]noble, are called. ²⁷ But ^(J)God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; ²⁸ and the ^[f]base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, ²⁹ that no flesh should glory in His presence. ³⁰ But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God—and ^(K)righteousness and sanctification and redemption— ³¹ that, as it is written, ^(L)“He who glories, let him glory in the Lord.”