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17基督差遣我，原不是为施洗，乃是为传福音。并不用智慧的言语，免得基督的十字架落了空。18因为十字架的道理，在那灭亡的人为愚拙。在我们得救的人却为神的大能。19就如经上所记，我要灭绝智慧人的智慧，废弃聪明人的聪明。20智慧人在哪里？文士在哪里？这世上的辩士在哪里？神岂不是叫这世上的智慧变成愚拙吗？21世人凭自己的智慧，既不认识神，神就乐意用人所当作愚拙的道理，拯救那些信的人。这就是神的智慧了。22犹太人是要神迹，希利尼人是求智慧。23我们却是传钉十字架的基督，在犹太人为绊脚石，在外邦人为愚拙。24但在那蒙召的无论是犹太人，希利尼人，基督总为神的能力，神的智慧。
17For Christ didn’t send me to baptize, but to preach the Good News—and not with clever speech, for fear that the cross of Christ would lose its power. 18The message of the cross is foolish to those who are headed for destruction! But we who are being saved know it is the very power of God. 19As the Scriptures say,“I will destroy the wisdom of the wiseand discard the intelligence of the intelligent.”#1:19 Isa 29:14. 20So where does this leave the philosophers, the scholars, and the world’s brilliant debaters? God has made the wisdom of this world look foolish. 21Since God in his wisdom saw to it that the world would never know him through human wisdom, he has used our foolish preaching to save those who believe. 22It is foolish to the Jews, who ask for signs from heaven. And it is foolish to the Greeks, who seek human wisdom. 23So when we preach that Christ was crucified, the Jews are offended and the Gentiles say it’s all nonsense. 24But to those called by God to salvation, both Jews and Gentiles,#1:24 Greek and Greeks. Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God.
