22. For Jewish people ask for signs and Greek people seek after wisdom,
23. but we proclaim Messiah crucified—a stumbling block to Jewish people and foolishness to Gentile people,
24. but to those who are called (both Jewish and Greek people), Messiah, the power of God and the wisdom of God.
25. For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
26. For you see your calling, brothers and sisters, that not many are wise according to human standards, not many are powerful, and not many are born well.
27. Yet God chose the foolish things of the world so He might put to shame the wise; and God chose the weak things of the world so He might put to shame the strong;
28. and God chose the lowly and despised things of the world, the things that are as nothing, so He might bring to nothing the things that are—