Bible Cross References
But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed.
John 9:34
They answered, "You were born and brought up in sin---and you are trying to teach us?" And they expelled him from the synagogue.
John 9:40
Some Pharisees who were there with him heard him say this and asked him, "Surely you don't mean that we are blind, too?"
Isaiah 5:21
You are doomed! You think you are wise, so very clever.
Isaiah 28:14
Now you arrogant leaders who rule here in Jerusalem over this people, listen to what the LORD is saying.
Isaiah 29:14-19
14
So I will startle them with one unexpected blow after another. Those who are wise will turn out to be fools, and all their cleverness will be useless."
15
Those who try to hide their plans from the LORD are doomed! They carry out their schemes in secret and think no one will see them or know what they are doing.
16
They turn everything upside down. Which is more important, the potter or the clay? Can something you have made say, "You didn't make me"? Or can it say, "You don't know what you are doing"?
17
As the saying goes, before long the dense forest will become farmland, and the farmland will go back to forest.
18
When that day comes, the deaf will be able to hear a book being read aloud, and the blind, who have been living in darkness, will open their eyes and see.
19
Poor and humble people will once again find the happiness which the LORD, the holy God of Israel, gives.
Isaiah 65:5
And then they say to others, 'Keep away from us; we are too holy for you to touch!' I cannot stand people like that---my anger against them is like a fire that never goes out.
1 Corinthians 1:20
So then, where does that leave the wise? or the scholars? or the skillful debaters of this world? God has shown that this world's wisdom is foolishness!
1 Corinthians 1:21
For God in his wisdom made it impossible for people to know him by means of their own wisdom. Instead, by means of the so-called "foolish" message we preach, God decided to save those who believe.
1 Corinthians 3:18-20
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You should not fool yourself. If any of you think that you are wise by this world's standards, you should become a fool, in order to be really wise.
19
For what this world considers to be wisdom is nonsense in God's sight. As the scripture says, "God traps the wise in their cleverness";
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and another scripture says, "The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are worthless."
James 3:13-18
13
Are there any of you who are wise and understanding? You are to prove it by your good life, by your good deeds performed with humility and wisdom.
14
But if in your heart you are jealous, bitter, and selfish, don't sin against the truth by boasting of your wisdom.
15
Such wisdom does not come down from heaven; it belongs to the world, it is unspiritual and demonic.
16
Where there is jealousy and selfishness, there is also disorder and every kind of evil.
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But the wisdom from above is pure first of all; it is also peaceful, gentle, and friendly; it is full of compassion and produces a harvest of good deeds; it is free from prejudice and hypocrisy.
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And goodness is the harvest that is produced from the seeds the peacemakers plant in peace.