John 11:49

Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world that he might put to shame the things that are strong.

Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.

His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.

Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.

The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, “What are we doing? For this man does many signs.

For I say through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble;

God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that don’t exist, that he might bring to nothing the things that exist,

Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.

He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.

Many will tell me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name, in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty works?’

Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said to him, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Most certainly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into God’s Kingdom before you.

So the detachment, the commanding officer, and the officers of the Jews seized Jesus and bound him,

and led him to Annas first, for he was father-in-law to Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.

Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas, the high priest.

For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.

We proclaim him, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;

This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.

Go and gather the elders of Israel together, and tell them, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, “I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt.

You shall put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be on Aaron’s heart, when he goes in before Yahweh. Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel on his heart before Yahweh continually.

David knew that Saul was devising mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, “Bring the ephod here.”

Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.

Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.

Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who answer with discretion.

The rich man is wise in his own eyes; but the poor who has understanding sees through him.

All this I have proved in wisdom. I said, “I will be wise;” but it was far from me.

Where then are your wise men? Let them tell you now; and let them know what Yahweh of Armies has purposed concerning Egypt.

Your heart will meditate on the terror. Where is he who counted? Where is he who weighed? Where is he who counted the towers?

who frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; who turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish;

Now Yahweh’s word came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,

Yahweh’s word that came to Micah the Morashtite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

Yahweh’s word which came to Zephaniah, the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah.

But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.

Peter had followed him from a distance, until he came into the court of the high priest. He was sitting with the officers, and warming himself in the light of the fire.

The child was growing and becoming strong in spirit, and was in the desert until the day of his public appearance to Israel.

When John’s messengers had departed, he began to tell the multitudes about John, “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?

Now he didn’t say this of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,

Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.

which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn’t have crucified the Lord of glory.

Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

Someone told David, saying, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” David said, “Yahweh, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”

The counsel of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, was as if a man inquired at the inner sanctuary of God. All the counsel of Ahithophel both was like this with David and with Absalom.

Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For Yahweh had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Yahweh might bring evil on Absalom.

When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, arose, and went home, to his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.

The king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring out of Yahweh’s temple all the vessels that were made for Baal, for the Asherah, and for all the army of the sky, and he burned them outside of Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.

Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and directed all who did the work in every kind of service. Of the Levites, there were scribes, officials, and gatekeepers.

He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.

He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders.

He pours contempt on princes, and loosens the belt of the strong.

He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

Don’t be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.

Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve kings. He won’t serve obscure men.

Who has believed our message? To whom has Yahweh’s arm been revealed?

After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One will be cut off, and will have nothing. The people of the prince who come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end will be with a flood, and war will be even to the end. Desolations are determined.

even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Those who had taken Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were gathered together.

in the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John, the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness.

The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

Annas the high priest was there, with Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and as many as were relatives of the high priest.

For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise. I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing.”

Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Hasn’t God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown, yet a wisdom not of this world nor of the rulers of this world who are coming to nothing.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He has taken the wise in their craftiness.”

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience.

Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;’ and don’t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;