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We are fools for Christ’s sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honorable, but we are despised.

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are fools.

1 Cor. 1:1‑3,18‑20,26‑28• ¹Paul, a called apostle of Jesus Christ, by God's will, and Sosthenes the brother,
²to the assembly of God which is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all that in every place call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both theirs and ours:
³Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
¹⁸For the word of the cross is to them that perish foolishness, but to us that are saved it is God's power.
¹⁹For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and set aside the understanding of the understanding ones.
²⁰Where is the wise? where scribe? where disputer of this world? has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
²⁶For consider your calling, brethren, that there are not many wise according to flesh, not many powerful, not many high-born.
²⁷But God has chosen the foolish things of the world, that he may put to shame the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world, that he may put to shame the strong things;
²⁸and the ignoble things of the world, and the despised, has God chosen, and things that are not, that he may annul the things that are; (1 Cor. 1:1‑3,18‑20,26‑28)

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1 Cor. 2:3,14• ³And *I* was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling;
¹⁴But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him; and he cannot know them because they are spiritually discerned; (1 Cor. 2:3,14)

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1 Cor. 3:18• ¹⁸Let no one deceive himself: if any one thinks himself to be wise among you in this world, let him become foolish, that he may be wise. (1 Cor. 3:18)

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2 Kings 9:11• ¹¹And Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord. And one said to him, Is all well? why came this madman to thee? And he said to them, Ye know the man, and his mind. (2 Kings 9:11)

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Hos. 9:7• ⁷The days of visitation are come; the days of recompence are come: Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the inspired man is mad, because of the greatness of thine iniquity, and the great enmity. (Hos. 9:7)

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Acts 17:18,32• ¹⁸But some also of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers attacked him. And some said, What would this chatterer say? and some, He seems to be an announcer of foreign demons, because he announced the glad tidings of Jesus and the resurrection to them.
³²And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked, and some said, We will hear thee again also concerning this. (Acts 17:18,32)

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Acts 26:24• ²⁴And as he answered for his defence with these things, Festus says with a loud voice, Thou art mad, Paul; much learning turns thee to madness. (Acts 26:24)

for.

Matt. 5:11• ¹¹Blessed are ye when they may reproach and persecute you, and say every wicked thing against you, lying, for my sake. (Matt. 5:11)

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Matt. 10:22‑25• ²²and ye shall be hated of all on account of my name. But he that has endured to the end, *he* shall be saved.
²³But when they persecute you in this city, flee to the other; for verily I say to you, Ye shall not have completed the cities of Israel until the Son of man be come.
²⁴The disciple is not above his teacher, nor the bondman above his lord.
²⁵It is sufficient for the disciple that he should become as his teacher, and the bondman as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more those of his household? (Matt. 10:22‑25)

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Matt. 24:9• ⁹Then shall they deliver you up to tribulation, and shall kill you; and ye will be hated of all the nations for my name's sake. (Matt. 24:9)

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Luke 6:22• ²²Blessed are ye when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from them, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as wicked, for the Son of man's sake: (Luke 6:22)

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Acts 9:16• ¹⁶for *I* will shew to him how much he must suffer for my name. (Acts 9:16)

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1 Peter 4:14• ¹⁴If ye are reproached in the name of Christ, blessed are ye; for the Spirit of glory and the Spirit of God rests upon you: on their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified. (1 Peter 4:14)

are wise.

1 Cor. 4:8• ⁸Already ye are filled; already ye have been enriched; ye have reigned without us; and I would that ye reigned, that *we* also might reign with you. (1 Cor. 4:8)

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1 Cor. 10:14‑15• ¹⁴Wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.
¹⁵I speak as to intelligent persons: do *ye* judge what I say. (1 Cor. 10:14‑15)

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Jer. 8:8‑9• ⁸How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of Jehovah is with us? Behold, certainly the lying pen of the scribes hath made it falsehood.
⁹The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: behold, they have rejected Jehovah's word; and what wisdom is in them? (Jer. 8:8‑9)

we are weak.

1 Cor. 2:3• ³And *I* was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling; (1 Cor. 2:3)

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2 Cor. 10:10• ¹⁰because his letters, he says, are weighty and strong, but his presence in the body weak, and his speech naught. (2 Cor. 10:10)

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2 Cor. 11:29• ²⁹Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is stumbled, and I burn not? (2 Cor. 11:29)

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2 Cor. 12:9‑10• ⁹And he said to me, My grace suffices thee; for my power is perfected in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather boast in my weaknesses, that the power of the Christ may dwell upon me.
¹⁰Wherefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in insults, in necessities, in persecutions, in straits, for Christ: for when I am weak, then I am powerful. (2 Cor. 12:9‑10)

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2 Cor. 13:3‑4,9• ³Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, (who is not weak towards you, but is powerful among you,
⁴for if indeed he has been crucified in weakness, yet he lives by God's power; for indeed *we* are weak in him, but we shall live with him by God's power towards you,)
⁹For we rejoice when *we* may be weak and *ye* may be powerful. But this also we pray for, your perfecting. (2 Cor. 13:3‑4,9)

but ye.

1 Cor. 3:2• ²I have given you milk to drink, not meat, for ye have not yet been able, nor indeed are ye yet able; (1 Cor. 3:2)

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1 Cor. 10:12• ¹²So that let him that thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall. (1 Cor. 10:12)

but we.

Prov. 11:12• ¹²He that despiseth his neighbour is void of heart; but a man of understanding holdeth his peace. (Prov. 11:12)

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Isa. 53:3• ³He is despised and left alone of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief, and like one from whom men hide their faces;--despised, and we esteemed him not. (Isa. 53:3)

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Luke 10:16• ¹⁶He that hears you hears me; and he that rejects you rejects me; and he that rejects me rejects him that sent me. (Luke 10:16)

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Luke 18:9• ⁹And he spoke also to some, who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and made nothing of all the rest of men, this parable: (Luke 18:9)

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1 Thess. 4:8• ⁸He therefore that in this disregards his brother, disregards, not man, but God, who has given also his Holy Spirit to you. (1 Thess. 4:8)

J. N. Darby Translation

*We* are fools for Christ’s sake, but *ye* prudent in Christ: *we* weak, but *ye* strong: *ye* glorious, but *we* in dishonour.

W. Kelly Translation

we, fools for Christ, but ye prudent in Christ; we weak, but ye strong; ye illustrious, but we disgraced.