1 Corinthians 1:25 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

God's nonsense is wiser than human wisdom, and God's weakness is stronger than human strength.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

ASV:

Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

BBE:

Because what seems foolish in God is wiser than men; and what seems feeble in God is stronger than men.

DBY:

Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

ERV:

Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

WEY:

Because that which the world deems foolish in God is wiser than men's wisdom, and that which it deems feeble in God is mightier than men's might.

WBS:

Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

WEB:

Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

YLT:

because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men;

1 Corinthians 1:25 Cross References

XREF:

1 Corinthians 1:18 For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

1 Corinthians 1:21 For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not come to know God, God was well-pleased through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe.

1 Corinthians 2:14 But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised.

1 Corinthians 4:10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are prudent in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are distinguished, but we are without honor.

2 Corinthians 13:4 For indeed He was crucified because of weakness, yet He lives because of the power of God. For we also are weak in Him, yet we will live with Him because of the power of God directed toward you. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

PNT:

1:25 The foolishness of God. In one thing that men call foolishness, in Christ Crucified, there is greater wisdom than in all the philosophers, and though it seemed
weakness of God to let Christ be crucified, yet the Crucified Savior is mightier than all the strength of men. If folly and weakness be of God, these will be wiser and stronger than men.

WES:

1:25 Because the foolishness of God - The gospel scheme, which the world judge to be mere foolishness, is wiser than the wisdom of men; and, weak as they account it, stronger than all the strength of men.

MHC:

1:17-25 Paul had been bred up in Jewish learning; but the plain preaching of a crucified Jesus, was more powerful than all the oratory and philosophy of the heathen world. This is the sum and substance of the gospel. Christ crucified is the foundation of all our hopes, the fountain of all our joys. And by his death we live. The preaching of salvation for lost sinners by the sufferings and death of the Son of God, if explained and faithfully applied, appears foolishness to those in the way to destruction. The sensual, the covetous, the proud, and ambitious, alike see that the gospel opposes their favourite pursuits. But those who receive the gospel, and are enlightened by the Spirit of God, see more of God's wisdom and power in the doctrine of Christ crucified, than in all his other works. God left a great part of the world to follow the dictates of man's boasted reason, and the event has shown that human wisdom is folly, and is unable to find or retain the knowledge of God as the Creator. It pleased him, by the foolishness of preaching, to save them that believe. By the foolishness of preaching; not by what could justly be called foolish preaching. But the thing preached was foolishness to wordly-wise men. The gospel ever was, and ever will be, foolishness to all in the road to destruction. The message of Christ, plainly delivered, ever has been a sure touchstone by which men may learn what road they are travelling. But the despised doctrine of salvation by faith in a crucified Saviour, God in human nature, purchasing the church with his own blood, to save multitudes, even all that believe, from ignorance, delusion, and vice, has been blessed in every age. And the weakest instruments God uses, are stronger in their effects, than the strongest men can use. Not that there is foolishness or weakness in God, but what men consider as such, overcomes all their admired wisdom and strength.

CONC:

Deems Feeble Foolish Foolishness Man's Men's Mightier Seems Strength Stronger Weakness Wisdom Wiser

Deems Feeble Foolish Foolishness Mightier Seems Strength Stronger Weakness Wisdom Wiser World

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