24 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

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

• Idolatry
• Resurrection
• Wisdom

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

• 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 1:20 — 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 1:22 — For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
• 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 3:18 — Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
• 1Cor 4:10 — We are fools for Christ’s sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised.
• 1Cor 4:10 — We are fools for Christ’s sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised.
• 1Cor 15:3 — For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
• 1Thess 2:13 — For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which e
• 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:
• Acts 4:2 — Being grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead.
• Acts 4:2 — Being grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead.
• Acts 6:9 — Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen.
• Acts 17:31 — Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from
• Acts 17:32 — And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter.
• Acts 26:23 — That Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should shew light unto the people, and to the Gentiles.
• 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.
• 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.
• Heb 6:2 — Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
• Luke 11:53 — And as he said these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things:
• Mark 4:15 — And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts.
• Mark 9:10 — And they kept that saying with themselves, questioning one with another what the rising from the dead should mean.
• Mark 9:14 — And when he came to his disciples, he saw a great multitude about them, and the scribes questioning with them.
• Matt 5:22 — But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but wh
• Prov 23:9 — Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
• Prov 26:12 — Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
• Rom 1:22 — Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,