1 Corinthians 1:25
Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
KJV
ὅτι τὸ μωρὸν τοῦ θεοῦ σοφώτερον τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἐστίν, καὶ τὸ ἀσθενὲς τοῦ θεοῦ ἰσχυρότερον τῶν ἀνθρώπων.
Greek NT
quia quod stultum est Dei, sapientius est hominibus : et quod infirmum est Dei, fortius est hominibus.
Vulgate
Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
ASV
For the foolishness of God is wiser than men: and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
10 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
θεός
theos
noun · 1311×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
μωρός
moros
adjective · 12×
σοφός
sophos
adjective · 20×
ἀσθενής
asthenes
adjective · 25×
ἄνθρωπος
anthropos
noun · 549×
ἰσχυρός
ischuros
adjective · 28×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
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SBLGNT: ἀνθρώπων | WH/Treg/NIV: ἀνθρώπων | RP: + ἐστίν
- ἀνθρώπων — SBLGNT
- ἀνθρώπων — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- + ἐστίν — Robinson-Pierpont
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Themes
Historic Christian voices
9 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§272Faith in God the Father Almighty can be put to the test by the experience of evil and suffering. God can sometimes seem to be absent and incapable of stopping evil. But in the most mysterious way God the Father has revealed his almighty power in the voluntary humiliation and Resurrection of his Son, by which he conquered evil. Christ crucified is thus "the power of God and the …
Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210203.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…
Chapter 2.—What Was Prophetically Prefigured in the Sons of Noah. The things which then were hidden are now sufficiently revealed by the actual events which have followed. For who can carefully and intelligently consider these things without recognizing them accomplished in Christ? Shem, of whom Christ was born in the flesh, means “named.” And what is of greater name than Chris…
Containing a general view of the subjects treated in Holy Scripture Chapter 1.— The Interpretation of Scripture Depends on the Discovery and Enunciation of the Meaning, and is to Be Undertaken in Dependence on God's Aid. 1. There are two things on which all interpretation of Scripture depends: the mode of ascertaining the proper meaning, and the mode of making known the meaning…
Summa Theologica · 2 passages
Are there any theological virtues? Are the theological virtues distinct from the intellectual and moral virtues? How many, and which are they? Their order Article 1. Whether there are any theological virtues? Objection 1. It would seem that there are not any theological virtues. For according to Phys. vii, text. 17, "virtue is the disposition of a perfect thing to that which is…
Did Christ's Passion bring about our salvation by way of merit? Was it by way of atonement? Was it by way of sacrifice? Was it by way of redemption? Is it proper to Christ to be the Redeemer? Did the Passion secure man's salvation efficiently? Article 1. Whether Christ's Passion brought about our salvation by way of merit? Objection 1. It would seem that Christ's Passion did no…
Cross-references
- 1Cor 1:18 — For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
- 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;
- 1Kgs 20:14 — And Ahab said, By whom? And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Even by the young men of the princes of the provinces. Then he said, Who shall order the battle? And he answered, Thou.
- 2Cor 13:4 — For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.
- 2Kgs 4:41 — But he said, Then bring meal. And he cast it into the pot; and he said, Pour out for the people, that they may eat. And there was no harm in the pot.
- Acts 5:39 — But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.
- Exod 14:2 — Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn and encamp before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, over against Baalzephon: before it shall ye encamp by the sea.
- Job 9:19 — If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?
- Josh 6:2 — And the LORD said unto Joshua, See, I have given into thine hand Jericho, and the king thereof, and the mighty men of valour.
- Judg 7:2 — And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me.
- Judg 15:15 — And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.
- Ps 94:11 — The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.
- Rom 11:33 — O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
- Zech 4:6 — Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.
- Zech 12:7 — The LORD also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify themselves against Judah.