1 Corinthians 4:10

Why did I ever come forth from the womb To look on trouble and sorrow, So that my days have been spent in shame?

And also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him. Some were saying, “What would this idle babbler wish to say?” Others, “He seems to be a proclaimer of strange deities,”—because he was proclaiming the good news of Jesus and the resurrection.

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.

but we preach Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling block and to Gentiles foolishness,

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

And I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling,

by glory and dishonor, by evil report and good report; regarded as deceivers and yet true;

For you, being so wise, are bearing the foolish gladly.