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19 It says in the Bible:

‘I, God, will destroy all the clever thoughts of wise people.
I will show that their clever ideas are useless.’[a]

20 So the wise people in this world are not really important. The clever teachers of God's Law are not really important. People who know how to argue well are not really important. God has shown that the wise ideas that belong to this world have no value.

21 God himself is wise. He has decided that people cannot know him just because they are wise in their own way. Instead, God uses the message about Jesus to save people. That message may seem to be silly to some people. But when we tell it to people, God saves them if they believe it.

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Footnotes

  1. 1:19 See Isaiah 29:14.