1 Corinthians 1:19
For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
KJV
γέγραπται γάρ, ἀπολῶ τὴν σοφίαν τῶν σοφῶν, καὶ τὴν σύνεσιν τῶν συνετῶν ἀθετήσω.
Greek NT
Scriptum est enim : Perdam sapientiam sapientium, et prudentiam prudentium reprobabo.
Vulgate
For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And the discernment of the discerning will I bring to nought.
ASV
For it is written: I will destroy the wisdom of the wise: and the prudence of the prudent I will reject.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
10 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
γάρ
gar
conjunction · 1036×
γράφω
grapho
verb · 192×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
σοφία
sophia
noun · 51×
σοφός
sophos
adjective · 20×
συνετός
sunetos
adjective · 4×
σύνεσις
sunesis
noun · 7×
ἀθετέω
atheteo
verb · 16×
ἀπόλλυμι
apollumi
verb · 90×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Intertextual echoes
This verse quotes or alludes to 1 earlier text.
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Isa 29:14 · paraphrase"Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid."Isaiah: I will destroy the wisdom of the wise — Paul on foolishness of the cross
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Chapter 28.—How It is that Porphyry Has Been So Blind as Not to Recognize the True Wisdom—Christ. You drive men, therefore, into the most palpable error. And yet you are not ashamed of doing so much harm, though you call yourself a lover of virtue and wisdom. Had you been true and faithful in this profession, you would have recognized Christ, the virtue of God and the wisdom of…
Cross-references
- 1Cor 1:20 — 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?
- 1Cor 3:19 — For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
- 1Cor 3:19 — For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
- 1Tim 6:20 — O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:
- 2Cor 10:5 — Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
- 2Sam 17:14 — And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the LORD had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the inte
- Col 2:8 — Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
- Isa 19:3 — And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to t
- Isa 19:11 — Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
- Isa 29:14 — Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent
- Isa 29:14 — Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent
- Isa 47:10 — For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me.
- Jas 3:15 — This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
- Jer 8:9 — The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?
- Jer 9:23 — Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:
- Jer 10:7 — Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto thee.
- Jer 51:17 — Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
- Job 5:12 — He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
- Job 5:13 — He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
- Job 12:17 — He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.
- Job 28:12 — But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?
- Luke 11:35 — Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness.
- Prov 2:7 — He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
- Ps 94:11 — The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.
- Rom 1:22 — Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,