Wisdom

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Wisdom the New Testament
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Matthew 1116-19

• To what can I compare this generation? They are
  like children sitting in the marketplaces and
  calling out to others
• We played the flute for you, and you did not
  dance we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.
• For John came neither eating nor drinking, and
  they say, He has a demon. The Son of Man came
  eating and drinking, and they say, Here is a
  glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax
  collectors and sinners. But wisdom is proved
  right by her actions. (NIV)

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Matthew 2334-39

• Therefore I am sending you prophets and wise men
  and teachers. Some of them you will kill and
  crucify others you will flog in your synagogues
  and pursue from town to town (Matt. 2334, NIV).

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John 11-18

• In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was
  with God, and the Word was God. He was with God
  in the beginning. Through him all things were
  made without him nothing was made that has been
  made. In him was life, and that life was the
  light of men. The light shines in the darkness,
  but the darkness has not understood it. The Word
  became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We
  have seen his glory, the glory of the One and
  Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and
  truth. (John 11-5, 14)

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Parables
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1 Cor. 118-24

• 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. For it is written
• I will destroy the wisdom of the wise the
  intelligence of the intelligent I will
  frustrate.
• Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar?
  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. Jews demand miraculous signs and
  Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach Christ
  crucified a stumbling block to Jews and
  foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God
  has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the
  power of God and the wisdom of God. (NIV)

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1 Cor. 125-30

• For the foolishness of God is wiser than mans
  wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than
  mans strength.
• Brothers, think of what you were when you were
  called. Not many of you were wise by human
  standards not many were influential not many
  were of noble birth. But God chose the foolish
  things of the world to shame the wise God chose
  the weak things of the world to shame the strong.
  He chose the lowly things of this world and the
  despised thingsand the things that are notto
  nullify the things that are, so that no one may
  boast before him. It is because of him that you
  are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom
  from Godthat is, our righteousness, holiness and
  redemption. (NIV)

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James

• Jewish-Christian wisdom

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Col. 22-3

• My purpose is that they may be encouraged in
  heart and united in love, so that they may have
  the full riches of complete understanding, in
  order that they may know the mystery of God,
  namely, Christ, in whom are hidden all the
  treasures of wisdom and knowledge. (NIV)