or Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
001:025 Because that which the world deems foolish in God is wiser
than men's wisdom, and that which it deems feeble in God
is mightier than men's might.
001:026 For consider, brethren, God's call to you. Not many who are wise
with merely human wisdom, not many of position and influence,
not many of noble birth have been called.
001:027 But God has chosen the things which the world regards as foolish,
in order to put its wise men to shame; and God has chosen
the things which the world regards as destitute of influence,
in order to put its powerful things to shame;
001:028 and the things which the world regards as base, and those which
it sets utterly at nought--things that have no existence--
God has chosen in order to reduce to nothing things that do exist;
001:029 to prevent any mortal man from boasting in the presence of God.
001:030 But you--and it is all God's doing--are in Christ Jesus: He has
become for us a wisdom which is from God, consisting of
righteousness and sanctification and deliverance;
001:031 in order that it may be as Scripture says, "He who boasts--
let his boast be in the Lord."
002:001 And as for myself, brethren, when I came to you, it was
not with surpassing power of eloquence or earthly wisdom
that I came, announcing to you that which God had commanded
me to bear witness to.
002:002 For I determined to be utterly ignorant, when among you,
of everything except of Jesus Christ, and of Him as
having been crucified.
002:003 And so far as I myself was concerned, I came to you in conscious
feebleness and in fear and in deep anxiety.
002:004 And my language and the Message that I proclaimed were not