1 Corinthians 1:26
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
Brothers, consider the time of your calling: Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were powerful; not many were of noble birth.
In context
24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
25 For the foolishness of God is wiser than man’s wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man’s strength.
26 Brothers, consider the time of your calling: Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were powerful; not many were of noble birth.
27 But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.
28 He chose the lowly and despised things of the world, and the things that are not, to nullify the things that are,
1 Corinthians 1:26 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Brothers, consider the time of your calling: Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were powerful; not many were of noble birth.
- KJV King James Version
- For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
- WEB World English Bible
- For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble;
- ASV American Standard Version
- For behold your calling, brethren, that not many wise after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- for see your calling, brethren, that not many [are] wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble;
- DBY Darby Translation
- For consider your calling, brethren, that [there are] not many wise according to flesh, not many powerful, not many high-born.
- WBS Webster Bible
- For ye see your calling, brethren, that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called :