1 Corinthians 1:26-31

Tree of Life Version

²⁶For you see your calling, brothers and sisters, that not many are wise according to human standards,^[a] not many are powerful, and not many are born well. ²⁷Yet God chose the foolish things of the world so He might put to shame the wise; and God chose the weak things of the world so He might put to shame the strong; ²⁸and God chose the lowly and despised things of the world, the things that are as nothing, so He might bring to nothing the things that are— ²⁹so that no human might boast before God. ³⁰But because of Him you are in Messiah Yeshua, who became to us wisdom from God and righteousness and holiness and redemption— ³¹so that, just as it is written, “Let him who boasts, boast in Adonai.”^[b]

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Footnotes

1 Corinthians 1:26 Lit. the flesh.
1 Corinthians 1:31 Jer. 9:23(24).

1 Corinthians 1:26-31

New International Version

²⁶Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were called.^(A) Not many of you were wise^(B) by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. ²⁷But God chose^(C) the foolish^(D) things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. ²⁸God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not^(E)—to nullify the things that are, ²⁹so that no one may boast before him.^(F) ³⁰It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus,^(G) who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness,^(H) holiness^(I) and redemption.^(J) ³¹Therefore, as it is written: “Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord.”^[a]^(K)