“If you threaten an avenger, you threaten us with the Creator. "Ye must become fools, that ye may be wise." Wherefore? "Because the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.”
Tertullian, 3th c. — Against Marcion Book V
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18Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
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16Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
17If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
— 1 Corinthians 3:18 —
19For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
20And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.