12 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

• Sovereignty of God
• Truth
• Wisdom

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• 1Cor 1:19 — For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
• 1Cor 1:26 — For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
• 1Cor 1:27 — But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
• 1Cor 2:6 — Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:
• 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.
• 2Sam 15:31 — And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O LORD, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.
• 2Sam 15:31 — And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O LORD, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.
• 2Sam 16:23 — And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he counselled in those days, was as if a man had enquired at the oracle of God: so was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.
• 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
• 2Sam 17:23 — And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and
• Acts 17:18 — Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he pre
• Eccl 7:23 — All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.
• Ezra 7:6 — This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel had given: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the LORD his G
• Isa 19:12 — Where are they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.
• Isa 33:18 — Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
• Isa 33:18 — Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
• Isa 44:25 — That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;
• Isa 44:25 — That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;
• Isa 51:13 — And forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he we
• Isa 53:1 — Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
• Jer 4:22 — For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
• Job 12:17 — He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.
• Job 12:20 — He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged.
• Job 12:24 — He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
• Job 17:4 — For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
• John 7:48 — Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him?
• John 7:49 — But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed.
• Matt 8:19 — And a certain scribe came, and said unto him, Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest.
• Rom 1:22 — Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
• Rom 9:20 — Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?