1 Corinthians 1:18
The Message of the Cross
1:18 For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
1 Corinthians 2:14
2:14 The unbeliever
1 does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him. And he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
1 Corinthians 3:19
3:19 For the wisdom of this age is foolishness with God. As it is written, “
He catches the wise in their craftiness.”
2
1 tn Grk “natural person.” Cf. BDAG 1100 s.v. ψυχικός a, “an unspiritual pers., one who merely functions bodily, without being touched by the Spirit of God.”
1 sn A quotation from Job 5:13.