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James 2:5
Listen, my dear brothers and sisters: Didn’t God choose the poor in this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him?
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1 Corinthians 1 20
Where is the one who is wise? Where is the teacher of the law? Where is the debater of this age? Hasn’t God made the world’s wisdom foolish?
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1 Corinthians 2 8
None of the rulers of this age knew this wisdom, because if they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
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1 Corinthians 3 18-1 Corinthians 3 20
Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks he is wise in this age, let him become a fool so that he can become wise.For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, since it is written, He catches the wise in their craftiness;and again, The Lord knows that the reasonings of the wise are futile.
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Luke 10:21
At that time he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said,“ I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and revealed them to infants. Yes, Father, because this was your good pleasure.
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Matthew 11:25-26
At that time Jesus said,“ I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and revealed them to infants.Yes, Father, because this was your good pleasure.
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Luke 18:24-25
Seeing that he became sad, Jesus said,“ How hard it is for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”
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1 Corinthians 2 13
We also speak these things, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual things to spiritual people.
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Acts 13:12
Then, when he saw what happened, the proconsul believed, because he was astonished at the teaching of the Lord.
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John 7:47-49
Then the Pharisees responded to them,“ Are you fooled too?Have any of the rulers or Pharisees believed in him?But this crowd, which doesn’t know the law, is accursed.”
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Luke 1:3
So it also seemed good to me, since I have carefully investigated everything from the very first, to write to you in an orderly sequence, most honorable Theophilus,
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John 19:38-39
After this, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus— but secretly because of his fear of the Jews— asked Pilate that he might remove Jesus’s body. Pilate gave him permission; so he came and took his body away.Nicodemus( who had previously come to him at night) also came, bringing a mixture of about seventy-five pounds of myrrh and aloes.
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1 Corinthians 2 3-1 Corinthians 2 6
I came to you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.My speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power,so that your faith might not be based on human wisdom but on God’s power.We do, however, speak a wisdom among the mature, but not a wisdom of this age, or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.
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John 4:46-53
He went again to Cana of Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. There was a certain royal official whose son was ill at Capernaum.When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea into Galilee, he went to him and pleaded with him to come down and heal his son, since he was about to die.Jesus told him,“ Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will not believe.”“ Sir,” the official said to him,“ come down before my boy dies.”“ Go,” Jesus told him,“ your son will live.” The man believed what Jesus said to him and departed.While he was still going down, his servants met him saying that his boy was alive.He asked them at what time he got better.“ Yesterday at one in the afternoon the fever left him,” they answered.The father realized this was the very hour at which Jesus had told him,“ Your son will live.” So he himself believed, along with his whole household.
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James 1:9-11
Let the brother of humble circumstances boast in his exaltation,but let the rich boast in his humiliation because he will pass away like a flower of the field.For the sun rises and, together with the scorching wind, dries up the grass; its flower falls off, and its beautiful appearance perishes. In the same way, the rich person will wither away while pursuing his activities.
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Zephaniah 3:12
I will leave a meek and humble people among you, and they will take refuge in the name of the LORD.
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James 3:13-17
Who among you is wise and understanding? By his good conduct he should show that his works are done in the gentleness that comes from wisdom.But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and deny the truth.Such wisdom does not come down from above but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.For where there is envy and selfish ambition, there is disorder and every evil practice.But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peace-loving, gentle, compliant, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without pretense.
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2John 1:1
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Acts 13:7
He was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man. This man summoned Barnabas and Saul and wanted to hear the word of God.
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Philippians 4:22
All the saints send you greetings, especially those who belong to Caesar’s household.
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Acts 17:34
However, some people joined him and believed, including Dionysius the Areopagite, a woman named Damaris, and others with them.