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26 Consider your own call, brothers and sisters: not many of you were wise by human standards,[a] not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth.(A) 27 But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong;(B) 28 God chose what is low and despised in the world, things that are not, to abolish things that are, 29 so that no one[b] might boast in the presence of God.(C) 30 In contrast, God is why you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,(D) 31 in order that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in[c] the Lord.”(E)

Proclaiming Christ Crucified

When I came to you, brothers and sisters, I did not come proclaiming the testimony[d] of God to you with superior speech or wisdom.(F) For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. And I came to you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling. My speech and my proclamation were made not with persuasive words of wisdom[e] but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power,(G) so that your faith might rest not on human wisdom but on the power of God.

Footnotes

  1. 1.26 Gk according to the flesh
  2. 1.29 Gk no flesh
  3. 1.31 Or of
  4. 2.1 Other ancient authorities read mystery
  5. 2.4 Other ancient authorities read the persuasiveness of wisdom