1 Corinthians 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?"
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- Romans 1:22
"Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,"
Read in chapter → - 1 Corinthians 3:19
"For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness."
Read in chapter → - Job 12:17
"He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools."
Read in chapter → - 1 Corinthians 1:19
"For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent."
Read in chapter → - Isaiah 44:25
"That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;"
Read in chapter → - Job 12:24
"He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way."
Read in chapter → - 2 Samuel 17:14
"And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the LORD had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom."
Read in chapter → - 2 Samuel 16:23
"And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he counselled in those days, was as if a man had enquired at the oracle of God: so was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom."
Read in chapter → - 1 Corinthians 2:6
"Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:"
Read in chapter → - 2 Samuel 17:23
"And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father."
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