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Most Relevant Verses. Romans 1:22. Verse Concepts. Professing to be wise, they became fools, 1 Corinthians 3:19. Verse Concepts. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness before God. For it is written, “He is the one who catches the wise in their craftiness”; Romans 1:31.
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
Someone living at the merely human level doesn’t accept the things of God’s spirit. They are foolishness to such people, you see, and they can’t understand them because they need to be discerned spiritually.
14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
God left a great part of the world to follow the dictates of man's boasted reason, and the event has shown that human wisdom is folly, and is unable to find or retain the knowledge of God as the Creator. It pleased him, by the foolishness of preaching, to save them that believe.
People in this world think that some people are wise. But God thinks that those wise people are fools. It says in the Bible: ‘God causes the clever thoughts of wise people to confuse them.’
Consider the case of Lydia, a successful businesswoman at Philippi (see Acts 16:14–15); some of the “chief women” at Thessalonica (17:4); respectable citizens, both men and women, at Berea (see 17:12); and Dionysius, a member of the respected Athenian council, the Areopagus (see 17:34).
