μωρίαmōría
foolishness: 1 Corinthians 1:18, 1 Corinthians 1:21, 1 Corinthians 1:23, 1 Corinthians 2:14, 1 Corinthians 3:19.
Greek (New Testament) · G3472
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 5 times in the Bible.
- 1 Corinthians 1:18 The message of the cross is foolish to those who are headed for destruction! But we who are being saved know it is the very power of God.
- 1 Corinthians 1:21 Since God in his wisdom saw to it that the world would never know him through human wisdom, he has used our foolish preaching to save those who believe.
- 1 Corinthians 1:23 So when we preach that Christ was crucified, the Jews are offended and the Gentiles say it’s all nonsense.
- 1 Corinthians 2:14 But people who aren’t spiritual can’t receive these truths from God’s Spirit. It all sounds foolish to them and they can’t understand it, for only those who are spiritual can understand what the Spirit means.
- 1 Corinthians 3:19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness to God. As the Scriptures say, “He traps the wise in the snare of their own cleverness.”
Source: G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922), public domain.