1 Corinthians 1:27

1 Cor. 1:27. "But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things to confound the things which are mighty." God, by this method, shows Satan that His understanding and wisdom is of infinitely further reach than his. All Satan's strife and contrivances is to get the powers and honors and riches and wisdom of the world on his side, and to improve them in his interest. God shows that His wisdom stands in no need of such helps; but He knows how to order the meanest and most despicable means, so and so to contrive things with them as to baffle all the policy of Satan and confound all the strength that he has on his side; as a king would show his superior policy if he should so contrive things as without the trouble of raising armies and fleets, and providing arms and ammunition, or taxing his country and the like, should successfully carry on a war against a powerful enemy with mighty forces, and should baffle and confound them from time to time, though they lay out themselves to the utmost, by some very inconsiderable means and with very little ado.

1 Cor. 2:15-16