Bible Cross References
The wise men are
Jeremiah 6:15
Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, nor did they know how to blush; therefore they shall fall among those who fall. At the time that I punish them they shall be cast down, says Jehovah.
Jeremiah 49:7
Thus says Jehovah of Hosts to Edom: Is wisdom no more in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished?
Job 5:12
He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot bring about their success;
Isaiah 19:11
Surely the rulers of Zoan are fools; the counsel of the wise counselors of Pharaoh has become stupid. How do you say to Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
Ezekiel 7:26
Disaster will come upon disaster, and rumor will be upon rumor. Then they will seek a vision from a prophet; but the Law will perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.
1 Corinthians 1:26-29
26
For you see your calling, brethren, that there are not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many of nobility.
27
But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are mighty;
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and the low-born of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are,
29
that no flesh should boast in His presence.
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Deuteronomy 4:6
Keep and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the eyes of the peoples who will hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
Psalm 19:7
The Law of Jehovah is perfect, converting the soul; the Testimony of Jehovah is sure, making wise the simple.
Psalm 119:98-100
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You, through Your Commandments, make me wiser than my enemies; for they are always with me.
99
I have more understanding than all my teachers, for Your Testimonies are my meditation.
100
I understand more than the elders, because I keep Your Precepts.
Isaiah 8:20
To the Law and to the Testimony! If they do not speak according to this Word, it is because there is no light in them.
1 Corinthians 1:18-29
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For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
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For it is written: I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and bring to nothing the understanding of the intelligent.
20
Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
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For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who are believing.
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For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom;
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but we preach Christ crucified, truly to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness,
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but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
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Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
26
For you see your calling, brethren, that there are not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many of nobility.
27
But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are mighty;
28
and the low-born of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are,
29
that no flesh should boast in His presence.
2 Timothy 3:15
and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.