For I do not desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, lest you be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.

As winds and clouds and rains are most evident [objects], so is he that boasts of a false gift.

I have seen a man who seemed to himself to be wise; but a fool had more hope than he.

for your trusting in wickedness; for you said, I am, and there is not another; know therefore the understanding of these things and your harlotry shall be your shame; for you said in your heart, I am, and there is not another.

How will you say, We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us? In vain have the scribes used a false pen.

The wise men are ashamed, and alarmed, and taken; because they have rejected the word of the Lord; what wisdom is there in them?

Every man is deprived of knowledge, every goldsmith is confounded because of his graven images; for he has cast false gods, there is no breath in them.

But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be dark. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

For it is written: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the understanding of the prudent I will annul."

For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, God was well pleased, through the foolishness of our preaching, to save those that believe.

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, "He catches the wise in their craftiness";