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For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

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For it is written:

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Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

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For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe.

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For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom;

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but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness,

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but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.