²⁶ God Has Chosen Those Who Count for Nothing. Consider, brethren, your calling. Not many of you were wise by human standards,^[a] not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. ²⁷ Rather, God chose those who were regarded as foolish by the world to shame the wise; God chose those in the world who were weak to shame the strong. ²⁸ God chose those in the world who were lowly and despised, those who count for nothing, to reduce to nothing those who were regarded as worthy,