1 Corinthians 1:21 (KJV)

Text size

For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe

☆ Save 🖍 Highlight Read in context →

Cross-references

in. 1Co 1:24 Da 2:20 Ro 11:33 Eph 3:10

the world. Mt 11:25 Lu 10:21 Ro 1:20-22 Ro 1:28

the foolishness. 1Co 1:18

the wisdom.Dr. Lightfoot well observes, "that [sophia tou theos ,] the wisdom of God, is not to be understood of that wisdom which had God for its author, but of that wisdom which had God for its object. There was, among the heathen, [sophia tes physeos,] wisdom about natural things, that is philosophy; and [sophia tou theos ,] wisdom about God, that is, divinity. But the world, in its divinity, could not, by wisdom, know God." The wisest of the heathen had no just and correct views of the Divine nature; of which the works of Cicero and Lucretius are incontestable proofs.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · public domain