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1 Corinthians 1:19-21

King James Version (KJV)

“In our prayers we talk to God, in our Bible study God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.”
— D.L. Moody

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19. For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. 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? 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.

1 Corinthians 1:19-21 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on 1 Corinthians 1:19

Theological / Devotional

It is written. The quotation is from Isa. 29:14, agreeing more nearly with the LXX than with the Hebrew. Paul is giving scriptural evidence for his observation in 1 Cor. 1:18. All the efforts of men to find a way of salvation through human philosophy and godless thinking will be rejected by the Lord and brought to nought.

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