1 Corinthians 1:25 - Compare All Versions

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For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.

For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

This foolish plan of God is wiser than the wisest of human plans, and God’s weakness is stronger than the greatest of human strength.

because God’s foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God’s weakness is stronger than human strength.

Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

While Jews clamor for miraculous demonstrations and Greeks go in for philosophical wisdom, we go right on proclaiming Christ, the Crucified. Jews treat this like an anti-miracle—and Greeks pass it off as absurd. But to us who are personally called by God himself—both Jews and Greeks—Christ is God’s ultimate miracle and wisdom all wrapped up in one. Human wisdom is so cheap, so impotent, next to the seeming absurdity of God. Human strength can’t begin to compete with God’s “weakness.”

For the foolishness of God is wiser than mankind, and the weakness of God is stronger than mankind.

[This is] because the foolishness of God [is not foolishness at all and] is wiser than men [far beyond human comprehension], and the weakness of God is stronger than men [far beyond the limits of human effort].

For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.