我们为基督的缘故算是愚拙的，你们在基督里倒是聪明的；我们软弱，你们倒强壮；你们有荣耀，我们倒被藐视。

我们为基督的缘故成为愚拙的；你们在基督里倒是聪明的。我们软弱，你们倒强壮；你们有荣耀，我们倒被藐视。

我们为基督的缘故成为愚拙的；你们在基督里倒是聪明的。我们软弱，你们倒强壮；你们有荣耀，我们倒被藐视。

我们为了基督的缘故被人看为愚昧，你们在基督里倒成了聪明人；我们软弱，你们倒强壮；你们受人尊敬，我们倒被人藐视。

我们为基督的缘故，成了愚笨的；你们在基督里，倒成了聪明的。我们软弱，你们倒强壮；你们受人尊敬，我们倒被轻视。

我们为基督的缘故是愚拙的，你们在基督里倒是聪明的；我们软弱，你们倒强壮；你们有荣耀，我们倒不受尊重。

我們為基督的緣故算是愚拙的，你們在基督裏倒是聰明的；我們軟弱，你們倒強壯；你們有榮耀，我們倒被藐視。

我們為基督的緣故成為愚拙的；你們在基督裏倒是聰明的。我們軟弱，你們倒強壯；你們有榮耀，我們倒被藐視。

我們為基督的緣故成為愚拙的；你們在基督裏倒是聰明的。我們軟弱，你們倒強壯；你們有榮耀，我們倒被藐視。

我們為了基督的緣故被人看為愚昧，你們在基督裡倒成了聰明人；我們軟弱，你們倒強壯；你們受人尊敬，我們倒被人藐視。

我們為基督的緣故，成了愚笨的；你們在基督裡，倒成了聰明的。我們軟弱，你們倒強壯；你們受人尊敬，我們倒被輕視。

我們為基督的緣故愚拙，你們在基督裏倒精明！我們軟弱，你們倒強壯！你們受尊榮，我們倒被羞辱！

我們為基督的緣故是愚拙的，你們在基督裡倒是聰明的；我們軟弱，你們倒強壯；你們有榮耀，我們倒不受尊重。

我儕緣基督而愚、爾在基督而智、我弱爾強、爾榮我辱、

我儕緣基督若愚、爾宗基督若智、我儕則柔、而爾則強、我儕則辱、而爾則榮、

我儕因基督而愚、爾曹信基督而智、我儕弱、爾曹強、爾曹尊、我儕卑、

吾儕已為基督之故、而成斯世之狂徒矣；爾等則優遊基督之中、而聰明自若也。吾儕弱而爾等強、爾等享榮而吾儕蒙辱。

We are fools for Christ, but you are so wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are honored, we are dishonored!

We are fools for Christ. But you are so wise in Christ! We are weak. But you are so strong! You are honored. But we are looked down on!

We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute.

Our dedication to Christ makes us look like fools, but you claim to be so wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are so powerful! You are honored, but we are ridiculed.

We are fools for Christ, but you are wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are distinguished, but we are dishonored!

We are fools on account of Christ, but you are prudent in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are distinguished, but we are without honor!

We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are distinguished, but we are dishonored!

We are fools for Christ’s sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye have glory, but we have dishonor.

We are fools for Christ, but you are wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are distinguished, but we are dishonored!

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

We are fools for Christ, but you are wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are distinguished, we are dishonored!

We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.

I came to you in weakness with great fear and trembling. (niv)

A group of Epicurean and Stoic philosophers began to debate with him. Some of them asked,“ What is this babbler trying to say?” Others remarked,“ He seems to be advocating foreign gods.” They said this because Paul was preaching the good news about Jesus and the resurrection. (niv)

Do not deceive yourselves. If any of you think you are wise by the standards of this age, you should become“ fools” so that you may become wise. (niv)

At this point Festus interrupted Paul’s defense.“ You are out of your mind, Paul!” he shouted.“ Your great learning is driving you insane.” (niv)

We are glad whenever we are weak but you are strong; and our prayer is that you may be fully restored. (niv)

For some say,“ His letters are weighty and forceful, but in person he is unimpressive and his speaking amounts to nothing.” (niv)

“ Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me. (niv)

Therefore, my dear friends, flee from idolatry.I speak to sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say. (niv)

“ Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. (niv)

When they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some of them sneered, but others said,“ We want to hear you again on this subject.” (niv)

You will be hated by everyone because of me, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved.When you are persecuted in one place, flee to another. Truly I tell you, you will not finish going through the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.“ The student is not above the teacher, nor a servant above his master.It is enough for students to be like their teachers, and servants like their masters. If the head of the house has been called Beelzebul, how much more the members of his household! (niv)

He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem. (niv)

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.For it is written:“ I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”Where is the wise person? Where is the teacher of the law? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? (niv)

To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everyone else, Jesus told this parable: (niv)

since you are demanding proof that Christ is speaking through me. He is not weak in dealing with you, but is powerful among you.For to be sure, he was crucified in weakness, yet he lives by God’s power. Likewise, we are weak in him, yet by God’s power we will live with him in our dealing with you. (niv)

So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don’t fall! (niv)

You gladly put up with fools since you are so wise! (niv)

Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be his holy people, together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ— their Lord and ours:Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. (niv)

Whoever derides their neighbor has no sense, but the one who has understanding holds their tongue. (niv)

Who is weak, and I do not feel weak? Who is led into sin, and I do not inwardly burn? (niv)

When Jehu went out to his fellow officers, one of them asked him,“ Is everything all right? Why did this maniac come to you?”“ You know the man and the sort of things he says,” Jehu replied. (niv)

I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready. (niv)

But he said to me,“ My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong. (niv)

The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. (niv)

Blessed are you when people hate you, when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil, because of the Son of Man. (niv)

“‘ How can you say,“ We are wise, for we have the law of the Lord,” when actually the lying pen of the scribes has handled it falsely?The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and trapped. Since they have rejected the word of the Lord, what kind of wisdom do they have? (niv)

Already you have all you want! Already you have become rich! You have begun to reign— and that without us! How I wish that you really had begun to reign so that we also might reign with you! (niv)

Therefore, anyone who rejects this instruction does not reject a human being but God, the very God who gives you his Holy Spirit. (niv)

The days of punishment are coming, the days of reckoning are at hand. Let Israel know this. Because your sins are so many and your hostility so great, the prophet is considered a fool, the inspired person a maniac. (niv)

If you are insulted because of the name of Christ, you are blessed, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. (niv)

“ Whoever listens to you listens to me; whoever rejects you rejects me; but whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.” (niv)

Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth.But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things— and the things that are not— to nullify the things that are, (niv)

I will show him how much he must suffer for my name.” (niv)