1 Corinthians 1:23

“Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,

And Simeon blessed them and said to Mary His mother, “Behold, this Child is appointed for the fall and rise of many in Israel, and for a sign to be opposed—

For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved, it is the power of God.

For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom did not come to know God, God was well-pleased, through the foolishness of the message preached, to save those who believe.

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

For I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified.

O foolish Galatians, who bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified?

But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross would have been abolished.

fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

and, “A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense.” They stumble because they are disobedient to the word, and to this stumbling they were also appointed.