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

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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?

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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?

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  1. 1 Corinthians 1:20 debater

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

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21 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.

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21 For since, in the (A)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.

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27 But God chose(A) the foolish(B) things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.

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27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;

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27 But (A)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;

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28 God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not(A)—to nullify the things that are,

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28 And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:

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28 and the [a]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,

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  1. 1 Corinthians 1:28 insignificant or lowly

12 What we have received is not the spirit(A) of the world,(B) but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us.

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12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

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12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but (A)the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.

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19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness(A) in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness”[a];(B)

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  1. 1 Corinthians 3:19 Job 5:13

19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.

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19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, (A)“He catches the wise in their own craftiness”;

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22 whether Paul or Apollos(A) or Cephas[a](B) or the world or life or death or the present or the future(C)—all are yours,

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  1. 1 Corinthians 3:22 That is, Peter

22 Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are your's;

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22 whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas, or the world or life or death, or things present or things to come—all are yours.

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13 when we are slandered, we answer kindly. We have become the scum of the earth, the garbage(A) of the world—right up to this moment.

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13 Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.

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13 being defamed, we [a]entreat. (A)We have been made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things until now.

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  1. 1 Corinthians 4:13 exhort, encourage

10 not at all meaning the people of this world(A) who are immoral, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world.

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10 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.

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10 Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go (A)out of the world.

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