16. For this is God's temple, God's building, the Spirit of God dwells here,
17. and you yourselves are the one building of God, and therefore not one shall perish though the evil doer reap his own destruction.
18. Cleverness and the wisdom of the world are not sufficient for these things. Thereby you may become self-deceived.
19. And if one must become a fool in order to be wise, this is the wisest course, for the world's wisest is a species of folly. “He taketh the wise in their own craftiness” (Job v. 13.).