1 Corinthians 1:26-28
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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,
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- 1.26 Gk according to the flesh
1 Corinthians 1:26-28
New International Version
26 Brothers 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. 27 But 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. 28 God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not(E)—to nullify the things that are,
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