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Wisdom of God
      Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where
      is the disputer of this world? Has not God made
      foolish  the  wisdom  of  this  world?  Because,
      after that in the wisdom of God the world by

      wisdom  did  not  know  God,  it  pleased

      God by the foolishness of preaching
      to save them that believe.


      For  the  Jews  require  a  sign,  and  the  Greeks
      seek  after  wisdom:  but  we  preach  Christ
      crucified;  to  the  Jews  a  stumbling  block,  and
      unto the Greeks foolishness; but to them which
      are  called,  both  Jews  and  Greeks, Christ the

      power of God, and the wisdom of God.
      Because  the  foolishness  of  God  is  wiser  than
      men;  and  the  weakness  of  God  is

      stronger than men.


      For you see your calling, brethren, how that not
      many  wise  men  after  the  flesh,  not  many
      mighty,  not  many  noble,  are  called:  but  God
      has chosen the foolish things of the world to
      confound  the  wise;  and  God  has  chosen  the
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