1 Corinthians 1:18-25
Modern English Version (MEV)
Christ the Power and Wisdom of God
18 For to those who are perishing, the preaching of the cross is foolishness, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19 For it is written:
“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.”
20 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has God not made the wisdom of this world foolish? 21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of preaching to save those who believe. 22 For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom. 23 But we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to the Jews and foolishness to the Greeks. 24 But to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, we preach Christ as the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25 For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
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24 But to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, we preach Christ as the power of God and the wisdom of God.
The point I wish to emphasis here is that the chosen ones acknowledge the death of Jesus Christ as the object that saves people from their sins since it proves his ascension which will provide the "Sacrificial Lamb". It also expresses that Jesus gave his own life as a ransom that pays for the sins of people and so frees them by Law, Matthew 20:28. This feature both demonstrates God’s power and wisdom in terminating sin forever, Daniel 9:24–25.
