1 Corinthians 1:19 KJV — MannaFest

1 Corinthians 1:19

For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.

KJV

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ASV

For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And the discernment of the discerning will I bring to nought.

WEB

For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”

YLT

for it hath been written, `I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the intelligence of the intelligent I will bring to nought;'

DBT

For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and set aside the understanding of the understanding ones.

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1 Corinthians — A pastoral letter answering a long list of questions and problems — unity, ethics, worship, and the resurrection — written to a gifted but divided church.

Author: Paul, with Sosthenes (1:1)
Date: c. AD 55, from Ephesus

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Isaiah 29:14
Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.
2 Corinthians 10:5
Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
Jeremiah 8:9
The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the Lord; and what wisdom is in them?
1 Corinthians 3:19
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
Job 5:12–13
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

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I will destroy--slightly altered from the Septuagint, Isa 29:14. The Hebrew is, "The wisdom of the wise shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid." Paul by inspiration gives the sense of the Spirit, by making GOD the cause of their wisdom perishing, &c., "I will destroy," &c. understanding of the prudent--literally, "of the understanding ones."

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

, All the valued learning of this world was confounded, baffled, and eclipsed, by the Christian revelation and the glorious triumphs of the cross. The heathen politicians and philosophers, the Jewish rabbis and doctors, the curious searchers into the secrets of nature, were all posed and put to a nonplus.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Quotes ISA 29:14
'I will destroy the wisdom of the wise' ('it is written')
Formula (gegraptai) citing ISA 29:14
gegraptai gar ('for it is written') — the causal-formula variant introducing the destruction-of-wisdom citation

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