1 Corinthians 1:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁰Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

1 Corinthians 1:20 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 1:22
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
Job 12:17
He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.
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.
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.
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.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 17-31)

We have here, I. The manner in which Paul preached the gospel, and the cross of Christ: Not with the wisdom of words (1 Cor. 1:17), the enticing words of man’s wisdom (1 Cor. 2:4), the flourish of oratory, or the accuracies of philosophical language, upon which the Greeks so much prided themselves, and which seem to have been the peculiar recommendations of some of the heads of the faction in this…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 20)

20. Where--nowhere; for God “brings them to naught” (1Co 1:19). the wise--generally. the scribe--Jewish [Alford]. the disputer--Greek [Alford]. Compare the Jew and Greek of this world contrasted with the godly wise, 1Co 1:22, 23. Vitringa thinks the reference is to the Jewish discourses in the synagogue, daraschoth, from a Hebrew root “to dispute.” Compare “questions,” Ac 26:3; Tit 3:9. If so, “wi…