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1 Corinthians 1

18 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. 


19 For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”


20 Where is the wise person? Where is the teacher of the law? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 


21 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. 


22 Jews demand signs and Greeks look for wisdom, 


23 but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, 


24 but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 


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


26 Brothers and sisters, 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. 


27 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. 


28 God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are, 


29 so that no one may boast before him. 


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


31 Therefore, as it is written: “Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord.”

2

John 2

Jesus Changes Water Into Wine

1 On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there, 


and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. 


When the wine was gone, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no more wine.”


“Woman, why do you involve me?” Jesus replied. “My hour has not yet come.”


His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”


Nearby stood six stone water jars, the kind used by the Jews for ceremonial washing, each holding from twenty to thirty gallons.


Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water”; so they filled them to the brim.


Then he told them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet.”

They did so, 


and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine. He did not realize where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside 


10 and said, “Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now.”


11 What Jesus did here in Cana of Galilee was the first of the signs through which he revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.

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