but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world that he might put to shame the things that are strong. God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that don’t exist, that he might bring to nothing the things that exist, that no flesh should boast before God.
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For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble; but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world that he might put to shame the things that are strong. God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that don’t exist, that he might bring to nothing the things that exist, that no flesh should boast before God. Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption: that, as it is written, “He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.”
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but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world that he might put to shame the things that are strong.
God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that don’t exist, that he might bring to nothing the things that exist,
that no flesh should boast before God.
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but God hath chosen the folysshe thinges of the worlde to confounde the wyse. And God hath chosyn the weake thinges of the worlde to confounde thinges which are mighty.
And vile thinges of the worlde and thinges which are despysed hath God chosen yee and thinges of no reputacion for to brynge to nought thinges of reputacion
that no flesshe shulde reioyce in his presence.
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But God hath chosen the foolish thinges of the world to confound the wise, and God hath chosen the weake thinges of the worlde, to confound the mightie things,
And vile things of the worlde and thinges which are despised, hath God chosen, and thinges which are not, to bring to nought thinges that are,
That no flesh shoulde reioyce in his presence.
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- James 2:5 (v27) Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he…
- Matthew 11:25 (v27) At that time, Jesus answered, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding,…
- 1 Corinthians 1:20 (v27) Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Hasn’t God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
- Psalms 8:2 (v27) From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength, because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the…
- Luke 21:15 (v27) for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.
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- Isaiah 29:14 (v27) therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their…
- Acts 4:11-21 (v27) He is ‘the stone which was regarded as worthless by you, the builders, which has become the head of the corner.’ There is salvation in no…
- 2 Corinthians 10:4-5 (v27) for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds, throwing down imaginations…
- 2 Corinthians 4:7 (v27) But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.
- Job 34:24 (v28) He breaks mighty men in pieces in ways past finding out, and sets others in their place.
- Matthew 21:16 (v27) and said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” Jesus said to them, “Yes. Did you never read, ‘Out of the mouth of babes and nursing…
- Zephaniah 3:12 (v27) But I will leave among you an afflicted and poor people, and they will take refuge in Yahweh’s name.
- Isaiah 26:5-6 (v27) For he has brought down those who dwell on high, the lofty city. He lays it low. He lays it low even to the ground. He brings it even to…
- Isaiah 29:19 (v27) The humble also will increase their joy in Yahweh, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
- Romans 3:27 (v29) Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.
- Romans 4:17 (v28) As it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations.” This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the…
- 2 Corinthians 10:10 (v27) For, “His letters”, they say, “are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is despised.”
- Isaiah 2:11 (v28) The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the arrogance of men will be bowed down, and Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.
- Jeremiah 9:23 (v29) Yahweh says, “Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom. Don’t let the mighty man glory in his might. Don’t let the rich man glory in his…
- Matthew 4:18-22 (v27) Walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers: Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew, his brother, casting a net into the sea; for…
- Ephesians 2:9 (v29) not of works, that no one would boast.
- Matthew 9:9 (v27) As Jesus passed by from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax collection office. He said to him, “Follow me.” He got up and…
- Acts 24:24-25 (v27) But after some days, Felix came with Drusilla, his wife, who was a Jewess, and sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ…
- Job 34:19-20 (v28) He doesn’t respect the persons of princes, nor respect the rich more than the poor; for they all are the work of his hands. In a moment…
- Luke 19:39-40 (v27) Some of the Pharisees from the multitude said to him, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples!” He answered them, “I tell you that if these were…
- Acts 6:9-10 (v27) But some of those who were of the synagogue called “The Libertines”, and of the Cyrenians, of the Alexandrians, and of those of Cilicia and…
- Acts 17:18 (v27) Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said,…
- Romans 3:19 (v29) Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world…
- Romans 15:17 (v29) I have therefore my boasting in Christ Jesus in things pertaining to God.
- 1 Corinthians 1:31 (v29) that, as it is written, “He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.”
- 1 Corinthians 4:7 (v29) For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not…
- Isaiah 2:17 (v28) The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the arrogance of men shall be brought low; and Yahweh alone shall be exalted in that day.
- Isaiah 10:15 (v29) Should an ax brag against him who chops with it? Should a saw exalt itself above him who saws with it? As if a rod should lift those who…
- Isaiah 41:12 (v28) You will seek them, and won’t find them, even those who contend with you. Those who war against you will be as nothing, as a non-existent…
- Romans 4:2 (v29) For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.
- 1 Corinthians 5:6 (v29) Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?
- Psalms 37:35-36 (v28) I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil. But he passed away, and behold, he was not.…
- Psalms 49:6 (v29) Those who trust in their wealth, and boast in the multitude of their riches—
- Isaiah 17:13-14 (v28) The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters: but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will be chased like the…
- Daniel 2:34-35 (v28) You saw until a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet that were of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces.…
- Acts 7:54 (v27) Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.
- Deuteronomy 28:63 (v28) It will happen that as Yahweh rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so Yahweh will rejoice over you to cause you to perish…
- Isaiah 37:36 (v28) Then Yahweh’s angel went out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the…
- Daniel 2:44-45 (v28) “In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which will never be destroyed, nor will its sovereignty be left to…
- Acts 7:35 (v27) “This Moses, whom they refused, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’—God has sent him as both a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of…
- Revelation 18:17 (v28) For in an hour such great riches are made desolate.’ Every ship master, and everyone who sails anywhere, and mariners, and as many as gain…
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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain On vv28–29 28. Things that are not He makes use of…
28. Things that are not He makes use of similar terms in Romans 4:17, but in a different sense. For in that passage, when describing the universal call of the pious, he says, that we are nothing previously to our being called, which must be understood as referring to reality in the sight of God, however we may appear to be something in the eyes of men. Here, the nothingness (οὐδενεια) of which he speaks must be viewed as referring to the opinion of men, as is manifest from the corresponding clause, in which he says that this is done in order that the things that are may be brought to naught For there is nothing except in appearance, because in reality we are all nothing. Things that are, therefore, you must explain to mean things that appear, so that this passage corresponds with such statements as these: —
He raiseth up the poor out of the dunghill, (Psalm 113:7.)
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He raiseth up them that are cast down, (Psalm 146:8,)
and the like. Hence we may clearly see how great is the folly of those who imagine that there is in mankind some degree of merit or worthiness, which would hold a place antecedent to God’s choice.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On vv28–29 Which in man’s judgment are almost nothing.
Which in man’s judgment are almost nothing.
To show that they are vain and unprofitable, and nothing worth, see Rom. 3:31.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv27–29 27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of…
27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
Ver. 27. But God hath chosen] In our Church assemblies the meaner usually, like little fishes, bite more than the greater. The poor are gospelized, Mat 11:5.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv27–29 God hath even amongst you chosen persons that are…
God hath even amongst you chosen persons that are in the account of the world as foolish things, to put the wise to shame; and persons of weak esteem, to confound those that are mighty in the repute of the world.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv27–29 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the…
But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world,.... So the Jews, in distinction from their wise Rabbins and doctors, call others, , "the fools of the world" (p); the persons whom God made choice of from all eternity, as appears by his calling them in time, are such who with respect to the wisdom of the world are foolish; have not those natural parts and abilities, that sagacity and penetration in things natural and civil, that knowledge and learning which many others have; and are therefore esteemed foolish by the men of the world, in comparison of whom; who are the wise and prudent, they are but babes: and God's end in his choice of them, and calling them, is
to confound the wise; who sooner or later will be brought to shame and confusion, to see such idiots, as they took them to be, wiser than they in the business of salvation; having been directed and influenced by divine grace to choose that good part, which shall never be taken from them, when they will be stripped of their nobility, wealth, and wisdom; to see these men go into the kingdom of heaven, and they themselves shut out:
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and God hath chosen the weak things of the world; who cannot boast of their birth and pedigree, of their ancient and illustrious families; have no titles of honour to aggrandize them, nor estates, possessions, and worldly substance to support themselves with; and this he has done,
to confound the things which are mighty; as Haman was by the advancement of Mordecai. It will be to the utter confusion of the rich and mighty, to see persons of the lowest class in life made kings and priests by Christ, set among princes, and upon the throne of glory; and they themselves fleeing, and calling to the mountains to fall upon them, and cover them from the sight of him that sits on the throne, and the Lamb,
(p) Zohar in Numb. fol. 63. 3. & 65. 4.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On vv28–29 Things that are not - The Jews frequently called…
Things that are not - The Jews frequently called the gentiles, "Them that are not," 2 Esdras vi. 56, 57. In so supreme contempt did they hold them. The things that are - In high esteem.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On vv27–29 Verse 27. But God hath chosen the foolish things]…
Verse 27. But God hath chosen the foolish things] God has chosen by means of men who are esteemed rude and illiterate to confound the greatest of the Greek philosophers, and overturn their systems; and, by means of men weak, without secular power or authority, to confound the scribes and Pharisees, and in spite of the exertions of the Jewish sanhedrin, to spread the doctrine of Christ crucified all over the land of Judea, and by such instruments as these to convert thousands of souls to the faith of the Gospel, who are ready to lay down their lives for the truth. The Jews have proverbs that express the same sense as these words of the apostle. In Shemoth Rabba, sec. 17, fol. 117, it is said: "There are certain matters which appear little to men, yet by them God points out important precepts. Thus hyssop in the sight of man is worth nothing, but in the sight of God its power is great; sometimes he equals it to the cedar, particularly in the ordinance concerning the lepers, and in the burning of the red heifer. Thus God commanded them in Egypt, Ex 12:22: And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, c. And concerning Solomon it is said, 1Kgs 4:33: And he discoursed of trees, from the cedar on Lebanon to the hyssop that grows out of the wall. Whence we may learn that great and small things are equal in the eyes of the Lord, and that even by small things He can work great miracles."
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On v27 1Co 1:27-29. But God hath chosen the foolish things…
1Co 1:27-29. But God hath chosen the foolish things — Or, supplying the word προσωπα, the foolish persons of the world. Such persons as are of little esteem in the world, for want of learning, parts, eloquence, and such other endowments as some have attained, and who are judged altogether unfit to teach others, especially the Greeks and Romans. To confound the wise — To shame those who account themselves, and are accounted wise; and of whom the world is most ready to boast. In this passage the apostle imitates the contemptuous language in which the Greek philosophers, and men of learning, affected to speak of the Christian preachers: yet, as he does it in irony, he aggrandizes them. The first preachers of the gospel, as Bishop Newton observes, “were chiefly a few poor fishermen, of low parentage, of no learning or eloquence, of no reputation or authority, despised as Jews by the rest of mankind, and by the Jews as the meanest and worst of themselves. What improper instruments were these to contend with the prejudices of the world, the superstition of the people, the interests of the priests, the vanity of the philosophers, the pride of the rulers, the malice of the Jews, the learning of the Greeks, and the power of Rome!” But the weaker the instruments who converted the world, the greater was the display of the power of God by which they acted. See on 2Co 4:7. And the weak things of the world — Persons who pretend to no extraordinary abilities or endowments; to confound — Or shame; the things which are mighty — Which, with all their boasted powers and qualifications, have never been able to work such a reformation among men, as these despised disciples of Jesus have been the means of effecting. And base things of the world — Things accounted vile and despised, εξουθενημενα, set at naught; and things which are not — Which are as little regarded, or as much overlooked, as if they had no being, and were below contempt itself; hath God chosen — To be his instruments in renewing and saving mankind; to bring to naught — To annihilate; things that are — In the highest esteem, and that make the most illustrious figures among mankind. That no flesh — A fit appellation; flesh is fair, but withering as grass; should glory in his presence — That no human being might boast of any advantages or distinctions, or of any excellence in himself, as the cause of his being appointed an apostle, evangelist, or minister of Christ, and employed in preaching the gospel: and that none who are converted by the preaching of such, should consider their conversion as the effect of any human abilities, natural or acquired, but should be compelled to ascribe the glory of all to God.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain On vv27–29 But God hath chosen - The fact of their…
But God hath chosen - The fact of their being in the church at all was the result of his choice. It was owing entirely to his grace.
The foolish things - The things esteemed foolish among people. The expression here refers to those who were destitute of learning, rank, wealth, and power, and who were esteemed as fools, and were despised by the rich and the great.
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To confound - To bring to shame; or that he might make them ashamed; that is, humble them by showing them how little he regarded their wisdom; and how little their wisdom contributed to the success of his cause. By thus overlooking them, and bestowing his favors on the humble and the poor; by choosing his people from the ranks which they despised, and bestowing on them the exalted privilege of being called the sons of God, he had poured dishonor on the rich and the great, and overwhelmed them, and their schemes of wisdom, with shame. It is also true, that those who are regarded as fools by the wise men of the world are able often to confound those who boast of their wisdom; and that the arguments of plain people, though unlearned except in the school of Christ; of people of sound common sense under the influence of Christian principles, have a force which the learning and talent of the people of this world cannot gainsay or resist. They have truth on their side; and truth, though dressed in a humble garb, is more mighty than error, though clothed with the brilliancy of imagination, the pomp of declamation, and the cunning of sophistry.
And the weak things - Those esteemed weak by the people of the world.
The mighty - The great; the noble; the learned.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On v29 Glory in his sight. God wished it to be…
Glory in his sight. God wished it to be known, that the establishment of his Church was not the work of human wisdom or power, but of the omnipotent power of his divinity. (Calmet)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain On vv27–29 the foolish things--a general phrase for all persons and…
the foolish things--a general phrase for all persons and things foolish. Even things (and those, too, foolish things) are chosen by God to confound persons, (and those too persons who are wise). This seems to me the force of the change from neuter to masculine.
to confound--The Greek is stronger, "that He might confound (or put to shame)." God confounds the wise by effecting through His instruments, without human wisdom, that the worldly wise, with it, cannot effect, namely, to bring men to salvation.
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chosen . . . chosen--The repetition indicates the gracious deliberateness of God's purpose (Jam 2:5).
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On vv27–29 27. God hath chosen—It is a divine revolution; and…
27. God hath chosen—It is a divine revolution; and we have the divine honour of being its instruments chosen of God. In this revolution the foolish things and the weak overthrow the wise and the mighty.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv27–28 27. to confound] Literally to disgrace, bring to shame.…
27. to confound] Literally to disgrace, bring to shame. That which is disgraced can have no ground for self-glorification.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv27–28 (27) Foolish things.—The neuter is used probably for the…
(27) Foolish things.—The neuter is used probably for the purpose of generalising, and it expresses the qualities of the men whom God has chosen—“the wise” is masculine in the Greek, showing that it is still of “persons” the Apostle is speaking.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv27–29 God chose; not, hath chosen out. We may remark,…
God chose; not, hath chosen out. We may remark, once for all, that there was no reason why the translators of 1611 should thus have turned the Greek aorists of the New Testament into perfects. In this and in many instances the change of tense is unimportant, but sometimes it materially and injuriously affects the sense. The foolish things the weak things. So, too, the psalmist, "Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength"; (Psa_8:2) and St. James, "Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith?". (Jam_2:5)
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B. W. Johnson 1891 · Public Domain On vv27–29 27. But God hath chosen the foolish things. Men…
27. But God hath chosen the foolish things. Men whom the world would call foolish, with a gospel that it called foolishness; yet these “confounded the wise” and upturned the world's philosophies.
B. W. Johnson's The People's New Testament with Notes (1889–1891) — public domain. Electronic text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library (CCEL) ThML edition.
William B. Godbey 1900 · Public Domain On vv27–29 27. “But God elected out the foolish things of…
27. “But God elected out the foolish things of the world that he may confound the wise.” We see this Scripture verified in our Savior’s apostles, “unlearned and ignorant men” (Act 4:13). He could equally conveniently have put His hand on the champions of Rabbinical and Grecian lore. Why did He select the heralds of salvation from the illiterate and uninfluential rabble? He wanted blank paper on which to write the message of salvation. The learned clergy would have been under great temptation to mix their human dogmata with the pure message of gospel grace, and thus adulterate it. Again, the popular mind would intuitively attribute the power to the gifted and cultured dispenser of the gospel benefactions, and fail to see the real Divinity in the plan of salvation. Hence Divine wisdom has in all ages utilized the elements regarded as “foolish” in worldly estimation to bear the message of redeeming grace and dying love to earth’s perishing millions. “And the weak things of the world God elected out that he may confound the strong.” When a church becomes strong numerically, financially and influentially, God lets her slide away. He has no more use for her. The Holy Ghost retreats away and leaves her to enjoy her worldly power and glory. You must remember that the Holy Ghost is God in the Church. What an awful evacuation of the Protestant churches by the Holy Ghost in the last twenty years. “He that rejecteth sanctification rejecteth not man but God, who giveth unto you his Holy Spirit.” God gives His Holy Spirit to all His people to sanctify them. When they reject the work, in so doing they reject the worker, and fall into the hands of Satan, who then delights to play off on them, robed as an angel of light, passing himself for God, inflating them with wonderful enthusiasm in church work, thus employing and comforting them in the absence of the Holy Ghost. The churches are apostatizing fearfully in the trend of human power and worldly influence, and equally rapidly forsaken by the Holy Ghost and given over to the delusions of the devil. Consequently God the Holy Ghost is everywhere raising up an army of blood-washed and fire-baptized evangelists, male and female, from hovels of poverty, retreats of ignorance, slums and jungles of iniquity, and sending them out to preach the unsearchable riches of Christ “with the Holy Ghost sent down from Heaven,” thus rapidly laying in the shade the cultured clergy, who depend on their intellect and education, instead of the omnipotent Galilean.
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J. W. McGarvey 1914 · Public Domain On vv27–29 but God chose the foolish things of the world,…
but God chose the foolish things of the world, that he might put to shame them that are wise; and God chose the weak things of the world [ Psa_8:2 ; Joh_2:5 ], that he might put to shame the things that are strong ;
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C. I. Scofield 1917 · Public Domain On v27 kosmos = mankind. (See Scofield "Mat 4:8").
world
kosmos = mankind. (See Scofield "Mat 4:8").
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v28 what is low and despised
what is low and despised
the people whom the world rejects. AT: "people who are humble and rejected"
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things that are regarded as nothing
This can be stated in active form. AT: "that which people usually regard as without value" (See: Active or Passive)
nothing, to bring to nothing things that are held as valuable
"nothing. He did this so he could show that the things that are held as valuable are really worthless"
things that are held as valuable
This can be stated in active form. AT: "things that people think are worth money" or "things that people think are worth respect" (See: Active or Passive)
He did this
"God did this"
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world
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v27 1:27-29 God chose despised and humble people in order…
1:27-29 God chose despised and humble people in order to demonstrate his judgment on human pride (cp. Rom 3:27; 4:2; 2 Cor 4:7-11; 12:8-10; Eph 2:9).
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