GOD was PLEASED through the FOOLISHNESS of what was PREACHED to SAVE those who BELIEVE. Jews DEMAND MIRACULOUS SIGNS and GREEKS LOOK for WISDOM, but WE PREACH CHRIST CRUCIFIED: a STUMBLING BLOCK to JEWS and FOOLISHNESS to GENTILES, but to those whom GOD has CALLED, both Jews and Greeks, CHRIST THE POWER OF GOD and THE WISDOM OF GOD. For the FOOLISHNESS of GOD is WISER than MAN'S WISDOM, AND THE WEAKNESS of GOD is STRONGER than MAN'S STRENGTH.
BROTHERS, think of what YOU were when YOU were CALLED. Not many of YOU were WISE by HUMAN STANDARDS; not many were INFLIENTIAL; not many of NOBLE BIRTH. But GOD CHOSE the FOOLISH THINGS of the WORLD to SHAME the WISE; GOD CHOSE the WEAK THINGS of the WORLD to SHAME the STRONG. GOD CHOSE the LOWLY THINGS of this WORLD and the DESPISED THINGS- and the THINGS that ARE NOT- to NULLIFY the THINGS that ARE, so that no one may BOOST BEFORE GOD. It is BECAUSE of GOD that YOU are in CHRIST JESUS, WHO HAS BECOME FOR US WISDOM FROM GOD- that is, OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS, HOLINESS and REDEMPTION. THEREFORE, as it is WRITTEN: "LET HIM WHO BOASTS BOAST IN THE LORD."
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