1 Corinthians 1:21-23

New Testament for Everyone

²¹ This is how it’s happened: in God’s wisdom, the world didn’t know God through wisdom, so it gave God pleasure, through the folly of our proclamation, to save those who believe. ²² Jews look for signs, you see, and Greeks search for wisdom; ²³ but we announce the crucified Messiah, a scandal to Jews and folly to Gentiles,