22 Jews ask for signs, and Greeks look for wisdom,
23 but we preach Christ crucified, which is a scandal to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles.
24 But to those who are called—both Jews and Greeks—Christ is God’s power and God’s wisdom.
25 This is because the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.
26 Look at your situation when you were called, brothers and sisters! By ordinary human standards not many were wise, not many were powerful, not many were from the upper class.
27 But God chose what the world considers foolish to shame the wise. God chose what the world considers weak to shame the strong.
28 And God chose what the world considers low-class and low-life—what is considered to be nothing—to reduce what is considered to be something to nothing.