1 Corinthians 3:19

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What does 1 Corinthians 3:19 mean?

1 Corinthians 3:19 in the original Greek

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Cross references for 1 Corinthians 3:19

• Job 5:13

  He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.

• Psalms 141:10

  Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal escape.

• 1 Corinthians 1:19-20

  For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

• Romans 1:21-22

  Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

• Isaiah 44:25

  That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;

• 1 Corinthians 2:6

  Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:

• Psalms 9:15-16

  The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken. The Lord is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.

• Psalms 7:14-15

  Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood. He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.

• Isaiah 29:14-16

  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. Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us? Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter’s clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?

• 2 Samuel 16:23

  And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he counselled in those days, was as if a man had enquired at the oracle of God: so was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.

• Isaiah 19:11-14

  Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings? Where are they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the Lord of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt. The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof. The Lord hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.

• Exodus 18:11

  Now I know that the Lord is greater than all gods: for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly he was above them.

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Context

• 1 Corinthians 3:18

  Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

• 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.

• 1 Corinthians 3:20

  And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.

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