Quotes About God

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know Him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe.

For the foolishness of God is wiser than manís wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than manís strength.

It is because of Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God: our righteousness, holiness, and redemption.

When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with eloquence or wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.

so that your faith would not rest on menís wisdom, but on Godís power.

No, we speak of the mysterious and hidden wisdom of God, which He destined for our glory before time began.

Rather, as it is written: “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no heart has imagined, what God has prepared for those who love Him.”

But God has revealed it to us by the Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

For who among men knows the thoughts of man except his own spirit within him? So too, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.

We have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us.

I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.

So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.

For we are Godís fellow workers; you are Godís field, Godís building.

If anyone destroys Godís temple, God will destroy him; for Godís temple is holy, and you are that temple.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in Godís sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness.”

And again, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.”

For it seems to me that God has displayed us apostles at the end of the procession, like prisoners appointed for death. We have become a spectacle to the whole world, to angels as well as to men.

Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,

By His power God raised the Lord from the dead, and He will raise us also.

Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;

But the one who loves God is known by God.

So about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world, and that there is no God but one.