1 Corinthians 1:19 BSB

Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
γέγραπται	gegraptai	It has been written	G1125 →
γάρ·	gar	for:	G1063 →
ἀπολῶ	apolō	I will destroy	G622 →
τὴν	tēn	the	G3588 →
σοφίαν	sophian	wisdom	G4678 →
τῶν	tōn	of the	G3588 →
σοφῶν,	sophōn	wise,	G4680 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
τὴν	tēn	the	G3588 →
σύνεσιν	sunesin	intelligence	G4907 →
τῶν	tōn	of the	G3588 →
συνετῶν	sunetōn	intelligent	G4908 →
ἀθετήσω.	athetēsō	I will frustrate.	G114 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Corinthians 3:19
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness.”
leads to
- Job 5:13
  He catches the wise in their craftiness, and sweeps away the plans of the cunning.
- Psalms 141:10
  Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass by in safety.
- 1 Corinthians 1:19–20
  For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”
- Romans 1:21–22
  For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.
- Isaiah 44:25
  who foils the signs of false prophets and makes fools of diviners, who confounds the wise and turns their knowledge into nonsense,
Through
Isaiah 29:14
Therefore I will again confound these people with wonder upon wonder. The wisdom of the wise will vanish, and the intelligence of the intelligent will be hidden.”
leads to
- Habakkuk 1:5
  “Look at the nations and observe—be utterly astounded! For I am doing a work in your days that you would never believe even if someone told you.
- 1 Corinthians 1:19–24
  For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”
- Isaiah 28:21
  For the LORD will rise up as at Mount Perazim. He will rouse Himself as in the Valley of Gibeon, to do His work, His strange work, and to perform His task, His disturbing…

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

Isaiah 29:14Therefore I will again confound these people with wonder upon wonder. The wisdom of the wise will vanish, and the intelligence of the intelligent will be hidden.”2 Corinthians 10:5We tear down arguments and every presumption set up against the knowledge of God; and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.Jeremiah 8:9The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and trapped. Since they have rejected the word of the LORD, what wisdom do they really have?1 Corinthians 3:19For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness.”Job 5:12–13He thwarts the schemes of the crafty, so that their hands find no success.Isaiah 19:11The princes of Zoan are mere fools; Pharaoh’s wise counselors give senseless advice. How can you say to Pharaoh, “I am one of the wise, a son of eastern kings”?Proverbs 2:7He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk with integrity,Psalms 94:11The LORD knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.Isaiah 19:3Then the spirit of the Egyptians will be emptied out from among them, and I will frustrate their plans, so that they will resort to idols and spirits of the dead, to mediums and spiritists.1 Corinthians 1:20Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?Judges 4:21But as he lay sleeping from exhaustion, Heber’s wife Jael took a tent peg, grabbed a hammer, and went silently to Sisera. She drove the peg through his temple and into the ground, and he died.Numbers 22:28Then the LORD opened the donkey’s mouth, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you that you have beaten me these three times?”1 Corinthians 4:6Brothers, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, so that you may learn from us not to go beyond what is written. Then you will not take pride in one man over another.Genesis 41:8In the morning his spirit was troubled, so he summoned all the magicians and wise men of Egypt. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but no one could interpret them for him.

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