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18\xa0For the word of the cross is\xa0folly to\xa0those who are perishing, but to us\xa0who are being saved it is\xa0the power of God.\xa019\xa0For it is written, \u201cI will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.\u201d 20\xa0Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age?\xa0Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?\xa021\xa0For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach\xa0to save those who believe.\xa022\xa0For\xa0Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom,\xa023\xa0but we preach Christ\xa0crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles,\xa024\xa0but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ\xa0the power of God and\xa0the wisdom of God.\xa025\xa0For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. 26\xa0For consider your calling, brothers:\xa0not many of you were wise according to worldly standards,\xa0not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth.\xa027\xa0But\xa0God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise;\xa0God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong;\xa028\xa0God chose what is low and despised in the world, even\xa0things that are not, to\xa0bring to nothing things that are,\xa029\xa0so\xa0that no human being might boast in the presence of God.\xa030\xa0And because of him\xa0you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us\xa0wisdom from God,\xa0righteousness and\xa0sanctification and\xa0redemption,\xa031\xa0so that, as it is written,\xa0\u201cLet the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.\u201d

1 Corinthians 1:18-31

And I, when I came to you, brothers,\xa0did not come proclaiming to you\xa0the testimony\xa0of God with lofty speech or wisdom.\xa02\xa0For I decided to know nothing among you except\xa0Jesus Christ and him crucified.\xa03\xa0And\xa0I was with you\xa0in weakness and in fear and much trembling,\xa04\xa0and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of\xa0the Spirit and of power,\xa05\xa0so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men[c]\xa0but\xa0in the power of God. 6\xa0Yet among\xa0the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not\xa0a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age,\xa0who are doomed to pass away.\xa07\xa0But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God,\xa0which God decreed before the ages for our glory.\xa08\xa0None of\xa0the rulers of this age understood this, for\xa0if they had, they would not have crucified\xa0the Lord of glory.\xa09\xa0But, as it is written, \u201cWhat no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has\xa0prepared\xa0for those who love him." 10\xa0these things\xa0God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even\xa0the depths of God.\xa011\xa0For who knows a person's thoughts\xa0except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.\xa012\xa0Now\xa0we have received not\xa0the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God.\xa013\xa0And we impart this\xa0in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit,\xa0interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual. 14\xa0The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are\xa0folly to him, and\xa0he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.\xa015\xa0The\xa0spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one.\xa016\xa0\u201cFor who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?\u201d But\xa0we have the mind of Christ.

1 Corinthians 2

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,\xa017\xa0that\xa0the man of God\xa0may be complete,\xa0equipped\xa0for every good work.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 (ESV)

There\u2019s nothing like the written Word of God for showing you the way to salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. Every part of Scripture is God-breathed and useful one way or another\u2014showing us truth, exposing our rebellion, correcting our mistakes, training us to live God\u2019s way. Through the Word we are put together and shaped up for the tasks God has for us.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 (MSG)

1. We hear them

2. We see them

3. We see by them

4. We obey them