²⁶ For consider your calling, brethren, that [there are] not many wise according to flesh, not many powerful, not many high-born.

²⁷ But God has chosen the foolish things of the world, that he may put to shame the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world, that he may put to shame the strong things;

²⁸ and the ignoble things of the world, and the despised, has God chosen, [and] things that are not, that he may annul the things that are;