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2 Corinthians 4 3
But if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.
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1 Corinthians 2 6-1 Corinthians 2 8
However, we do 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.On the contrary, we speak God’s hidden wisdom in a mystery, a wisdom God predestined before the ages for our glory.None of the rulers of this age knew this wisdom, for if they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
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Matthew 11:25-27
At that time Jesus said,“ I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned and revealed them to infants.Yes, Father, because this was Your good pleasure.All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son desires to reveal Him.
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Mark 10:15
I assure you: Whoever does not welcome the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.”
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Matthew 16:17
And Jesus responded,“ Simon son of Jonah, you are blessed because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but My Father in heaven.
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Matthew 13:11-16
He answered them,“ Because the secrets of the kingdom of heaven have been given for you to know, but it has not been given to them.For whoever has, more will be given to him, and he will have more than enough. But whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.For this reason I speak to them in parables, because looking they do not see, and hearing they do not listen or understand.Isaiah’s prophecy is fulfilled in them, which says: You will listen and listen, yet never understand; and you will look and look, yet never perceive.For this people’s heart has grown callous; their ears are hard of hearing, and they have shut their eyes; otherwise they might see with their eyes and hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn back— and I would cure them.“ But your eyes are blessed because they do see, and your ears because they do hear!
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Ephesians 1:5
He predestined us to be adopted through Jesus Christ for Himself, according to His favor and will,
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Ephesians 1:11
We have also received an inheritance in Him, predestined according to the purpose of the One who works out everything in agreement with the decision of His will,
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Colossians 2:2-3
I want their hearts to be encouraged and joined together in love, so that they may have all the riches of assured understanding and have the knowledge of God’s mystery— Christ.All the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden in Him.
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Isaiah 53:11
He will see it out of His anguish, and He will be satisfied with His knowledge. My righteous Servant will justify many, and He will carry their iniquities.
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Psalms 25:14
The secret counsel of the Lord is for those who fear Him, and He reveals His covenant to them.
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Luke 15:5
When he has found it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders,
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Job 5:12-14
He frustrates the schemes of the crafty so that they achieve no success.He traps the wise in their craftiness so that the plans of the deceptive are quickly brought to an end.They encounter darkness by day, and they grope at noon as if it were night.
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Matthew 21:16
and said to Him,“ Do You hear what these children are saying?”“ Yes,” Jesus told them.“ Have you never read: You have prepared praise from the mouths of children and nursing infants?”
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1 Peter 2 1-1 Peter 2 2
So rid yourselves of all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all slander.Like newborn infants, desire the pure spiritual milk, so that you may grow by it for your salvation,
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Psalms 8:2
Because of Your adversaries, You have established a stronghold from the mouths of children and nursing infants to silence the enemy and the avenger.
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Zephaniah 3:17
Yahweh your God is among you, a warrior who saves. He will rejoice over you with gladness. He will bring you quietness with His love. He will delight in you with shouts of joy.”
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Isaiah 66:1
This is what the Lord says: Heaven is My throne, and earth is My footstool. What house could you possibly build for Me? And what place could be My home?
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1 Corinthians 1 9-1 Corinthians 1 29
God is faithful; you were called by Him into fellowship with His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.Now I urge you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree in what you say, that there be no divisions among you, and that you be united with the same understanding and the same conviction.For it has been reported to me about you, my brothers, by members of Chloe’s household, that there is rivalry among you.What I am saying is this: Each of you says,“ I’m with Paul,” or“ I’m with Apollos,” or“ I’m with Cephas,” or“ I’m with Christ.”Is Christ divided? Was it Paul who was crucified for you? Or were you baptized in Paul’s name?I thank God that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius,so that no one can say you were baptized in my name.I did, in fact, baptize the household of Stephanas; beyond that, I don’t know if I baptized anyone else.For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to evangelize— not with clever words, so that the cross of Christ will not be emptied of its effect.For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but it is God’s power to us who are being saved.For it is written: I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will set aside the understanding of the experts.Where is the philosopher? Where is the scholar? Where is the debater of this age? Hasn’t God made the world’s wisdom foolish?For since, in God’s wisdom, the world did not know God through wisdom, God was pleased to save those who believe through the foolishness of the message preached.For the Jews ask for signs and the Greeks seek wisdom,but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to the Jews and foolishness to the Gentiles.Yet to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is God’s power and God’s wisdom,because God’s foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God’s weakness is stronger than human strength.Brothers, consider your calling: Not many are wise from a human perspective, not many powerful, not many of noble birth.Instead, God has chosen what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen what is weak in the world to shame the strong.God has chosen what is insignificant and despised in the world— what is viewed as nothing— to bring to nothing what is viewed as something,so that no one can boast in His presence.
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Luke 15:9
When she finds it, she calls her women friends and neighbors together, saying,‘ Rejoice with me, because I have found the silver coin I lost!’
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John 17:24-26
Father, I desire those You have given Me to be with Me where I am. Then they will see My glory, which You have given Me because You loved Me before the world’s foundation.Righteous Father! The world has not known You. However, I have known You, and these have known that You sent Me.I made Your name known to them and will make it known, so the love You have loved Me with may be in them and I may be in them.
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Psalms 24:1
The earth and everything in it, the world and its inhabitants, belong to the Lord;
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Isaiah 29:18-19
On that day the deaf will hear the words of a document, and out of a deep darkness the eyes of the blind will see.The humble will have joy after joy in the Lord, and the poor people will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
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Isaiah 35:8
A road will be there and a way; it will be called the Holy Way. The unclean will not travel on it, but it will be for the one who walks the path. Even the fool will not go astray.
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John 11:41
So they removed the stone. Then Jesus raised His eyes and said,“ Father, I thank You that You heard Me.
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Isaiah 29:14
therefore I will again confound these people with wonder after wonder. The wisdom of their wise men will vanish, and the understanding of the perceptive will be hidden.
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Isaiah 62:5
For as a young man marries a young woman, so your sons will marry you; and as a groom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.
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1 Corinthians 3 18-1 Corinthians 3 20
No one should deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks he is wise in this age, he must become foolish 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 meaningless.