Romans 16 1 Corinthians 1:26-31 1 Corinthians 2

²⁶For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards,3 not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. ²⁷But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; ²⁸God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, ²⁹so that no human being4 might boast in the presence of God. ³⁰And because of him5 you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, ³¹so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”

1 Corinthians 1 1 Corinthians 2:1-5 1 Corinthians 3

Proclaiming Christ Crucified

¹And I, when I came to you, brothers,1 did not come proclaiming to you the testimony2 of God with lofty speech or wisdom. ²For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. ³And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, ⁴and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, ⁵so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men3 but in the power of God.