“for the word of the Cross to those indeed perishing is foolishness, and to us—those being saved—it is the power of God,”— 1 Corinthians 1:18 (LSV)
15that no one may say that to my own name I immersed;
16and I also immersed Stephanas’ household—further, I have not known if I immersed any other.
17For Christ did not send me to immerse, but to proclaim good news, not in wisdom of discourse, that the Cross of the Christ may not be made of no effect;
18for the word of the Cross to those indeed perishing is foolishness, and to us—those being saved—it is the power of God,
19for it has been written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the intelligence of the intelligent I will bring to nothing”;
20where [is] the wise? Where the scribe? Where a disputer of this age? Did God not make foolish the wisdom of this world?
21For seeing in the wisdom of God the world through the wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the preaching to save those believing.