1 Corinthians 3:19 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁹For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.

1 Corinthians 3:19 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 5:13
He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
Psalms 141:10
Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal escape.
1 Corinthians 1:19-20
For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. …
Romans 1:21-22
Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. …
Isaiah 44:25
That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;

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Commentary

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

(vv. 18-20)

Here he prescribes humility, and a modest opinion of themselves, for the remedy of the irregularities in the church of Corinth, the divisions and contests among them: “ Let no man deceive himself, 1 Cor. 3:18. Do not be led away from the truth and simplicity of the gospel by pretenders to science and eloquence, by a show of deep learning, or a flourish of words, by rabbis, orators, or philosophers…

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

(vv. 19)

19. with God--in the judgment of God. it is written--in Job 5:13. The formula of quoting Scripture used here, establishes the canonicity of Job. He taketh ... wise in ... own craftiness--proving the “foolishness” of the world’s wisdom, since it is made by God the very snare to catch those who think themselves so wise. Literally, “He who taketh ... the whole of the sentence not being quoted, but on…