Iivesi zeBhayibhile ezithandwayo ezisuka 1 Corinthians 1

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Why? Because this calling of God is not on the lines of anything which the world sets up as important.

Cleverness, human wisdom, intellectual strength do not accomplish the mighty works of the Gospel. Ours is the word of the cross; it saves us; there is in it the power of God; but to those who are in the power of death and subject to its ever-increasing dominion, this word appears as folly, as an impertinence.

But there is more wisdom in God’s foolishness than in men’s cleverness, more strength in God’s weakness than in human power.

For God, through whom this calling, this share in His son Jesus Christ our Lord has come to you, is faithful in all His ways.

Through this name of Jesus Christ our Lord, I urge you — for that is the secret of his name — to have one mind, one persuasion and precept amongst you, to be all of one mind with one idea. O let schisms and divisions be unknown to you, for your perfection is in unity.

Where is the wise, the scribe, the learned investigator of material things? God makes the wisdom of the world foolishness