From the Blue Letter Bible

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1Cr 1:19 — For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

Entire Verse.		1Cr 3:19; Job 5:12,13; Isa 19:3,11; Isa 29:14; Jer 8:9

Correlating Passages

Related Verses

	1Cr 3:19	For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
	Job 5:12	He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform [their] enterprise.
	Job 5:13	He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
	Isa 19:3	And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
	Isa 19:11	Surely the princes of Zoan [are] fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I [am] the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
	Isa 29:14	Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, [even] a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise [men] shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent [men] shall be hid.
	Jer 8:9	The wise [men] are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom [is] in them?

Return to Top

Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)

Scott, Thomas. "1 Corinthians 1:19," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/1Cr/1/19.html>.

Search the Bible

Search the BLB

Featured Items

Today's Items:

Items of Interest: