21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach¹ to save those who believe.

23 but we preach Christ ^jcrucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles,

25 For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

14 The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are ^vfolly to him, and ^whe is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.