1 Corinthians 1:28 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

²⁸ God has chosen what is insignificant and despised in the world   #– #what is viewed as nothing #– #to bring to nothing what is viewed as something,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁸ and base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁸ And God also selected (deliberately chose) what in the world is lowborn and insignificant and branded and treated with contempt, even the things that are nothing, that He might depose and bring to nothing the things that are,

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁸ and the base things of the world, and the things that are despised, did God choose, yea and the things that are not, that he might bring to nought the things that are:

Common English Bible

²⁸ And God chose what the world considers low-class and low-life—what is considered to be nothing—to reduce what is considered to be something to nothing.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁸ And God has chosen the ignoble and contemptible of the world, those who are nothing, so that he may reduce to nothing those who are something.

1 Corinthians 1:28 Cross References

Job 34:24

He shatters the mighty without an investigation and sets others in their place.

Isaiah 2:11

The pride of mankind  will be humbled, and human loftiness will be brought low; the Lord alone will be exalted on that day.

Isaiah 2:17

The pride of mankind will be brought low, and human loftiness will be humbled; the Lord alone will be exalted on that day.

Isaiah 37:36

Then  the angel of the Lord   went out and struck down one hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!

Isaiah 41:12

You will look for those who contend with you, but you will not find them. Those who war against you will become absolutely nothing.

Romans 4:17

As it is written: I have made you the father of many nations  #– #  , in the presence of the God in whom he believed, the one who gives life to the dead  and calls  things into existence that do not exist.

1 Corinthians 1:20

Where is the one who is wise? Where is the teacher of the law?  Where is the debater of this age?  Hasn’t God made the world’s wisdom foolish?

1 Corinthians 2:6

We do, however, speak a wisdom among the mature,  but not a wisdom of this age, or of the rulers  of this age, who are coming to nothing.

2 Corinthians 12:11

I have been a fool; you forced it on me. You ought to have commended me, since I am not in any way inferior to those ‘super-apostles’, even though I am nothing.

Deuteronomy 28:63

Just as the Lord was glad to cause you to prosper and to multiply you, so he will also be glad to cause you to perish and to destroy you. You will be ripped out of the land you are entering to possess.

2 Thessalonians 2:8

and then the lawless one will be revealed. The Lord Jesus will destroy him with the breath of his mouth  and will bring him to nothing at the appearance of his coming.

Hebrews 2:14

Now since the children have flesh and blood in common, Jesus also shared in these, so that through his death he might destroy the one holding the power of death #– #that is, the devil   #– #

Revelation 18:17

for in a single hour such fabulous wealth was destroyed! And every shipmaster, seafarer, the sailors, and all who do business by sea, stood far off