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You made me go digging....I always thought on verse 10 as we do for our fellow believers 1st, like I take care of my family 1st then reach out to help my neighbor. Now I have read this section from 3 Study Bibles and the Interpreter's Bible. I have a handle on it and understand it, but, not good enough to write my thoughts.....Thanks for making me wake up and dig...lol...I do not feel bad, even Peter said that Paul was at times hard to understand----

[mathew633]

1 Corinthians 1:18-25

18) For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19) For it is written,

“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
and the cleverness of the clever I will thwart.”

20) Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21) For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe. 22) For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, 23) but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, 24) but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25) For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.