1 Corinthians 1:19-23 Therefore, it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will set aside the knowledge of the prudent."

Living_Oracles⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁹ Therefore, it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will set aside the knowledge of the prudent." ²⁰ Where is the wise man? where the scribe? where the disputers of this world? Has not God shown the wisdom of this world to be folly? ²¹ For, when, in the wisdom of God, the world, through wisdom, knew not God, it pleased God, through the foolishness of this proclamation, to save them who believe. ²² And though the Jews demand a sign, and the Greeks seek wisdom; ²³ yet we proclaim a crucified Christ: to the Jews, indeed, a stumbling block, and to the Greeks foolishness: