²¹ For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach^[a] to save those who believe.

²³ but we preach Christ ^(A)crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles,

²⁵ For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

¹⁴ The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are ^(A)folly to him, and ^(B)he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.