21For because, by the purpose of God, the world, with all its wisdom, had not the knowledge of God, it was God's pleasure, by so foolish a thing as preaching, to give salvation to those who had faith in him.
22Seeing that the Jews make request for signs, and the Greeks are looking for knowledge:
23But we give the good news of Christ on the cross, a hard thing to the Jews, and a foolish thing to the Gentiles;
24But to those of God's selection, Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power and the wisdom of God.
25Because what seems foolish in God is wiser than men; and what seems feeble in God is stronger than men.
26For you see God's design for you, my brothers, that he has not taken a great number of the wise after the flesh, not the strong, not the noble:
27But God made selection of the foolish things of this world so that he might put the wise to shame; and the feeble things that he might put to shame the strong;
