1 Corinthians 1:20
Where is the wise person? Where is the expert in the Law? Where is the skilled debater of this present age? Has God not shown the world's wisdom to be foolishness?
Treated in 6 passages across the library.
Where it is preached
- Communion with God ·
Digression II: all solid wisdom laid up in Christ cites 1 Cor. i. 20
…blasted all their pride: “Where,” saith he, “is the wise? where is the scribe,” etc., 1 Cor. i. 20. I shall not add what Paul hath farther cautioned us, to the seeming condemning of…
- Institutes of the Christian Religion ·
Book 2, Chapter 2 — Man Now Deprived of Freedom of Will, and Miserably Enslaved cites 1 Cor. 1:20
…we more? The Apostle declares that God has “made foolish the wisdom of this world,” (1 Cor. 1:20); and shall we attribute to it an acuteness capable of penetrating to God, and the hidden…
- A Call to the Unconverted ·
Sermon I cites 1 Cor. i. 20
…liveth, as Christ in him. For these, see Job i. 11, 12, and iii. 20. John xv. 2, 3, 4. 1 Cor. i. 20, and ii. 2. You see now in plain terms, from the word of God, who are the wicked and who…
- A Call to the Unconverted ·
Sermon III cites 1 Cor. i. 20
…men,” 2 Thess. iii. 2. and, “That the wisdom of the world is foolishness with God,” 1 Cor. i. 20 and Luke xv. 17. It is said of the prodigal, that, “when he came to himself,” he resolved…
- The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit ·
The Holy Spirit as a Teacher cites 1 Corinthians 1:19-21
…to the Corinthians, especially the first to the third chapters. (See, for example, 1 Corinthians 1:19-21, 26, and 27.) The Jews of old had a revelation by the Spirit, but they failed to depend…
- The Bondage of the Will ·
Discussion: Part the First cites 1 Cor. i. 17-31
…who is both God and man! Nay it is rather offended at such a saying, as Paul affirms. (1 Cor. i. 17-31.) so far is it from possibility that it should either will it, or believe it. John…