He shatters the mighty without investigation and sets others in their place.
1 Corinthians 1:28 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 God chose what is low and despised in the world, things that are not, to abolish things that are, More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the base things of the world, and the things that are contemptible, hath God chosen, and things that are not, that he might bring to nought things that are: |
He shatters the mighty without investigation and sets others in their place.
Many are the torments of the wicked, but steadfast love surrounds those who trust in the Lord.
The haughty eyes of people shall be brought low, and the pride of everyone shall be humbled, and the Lord alone will be exalted on that day.
The haughtiness of people shall be humbled, and the pride of everyone shall be brought low, and the Lord alone will be exalted on that day.
Then the angel of the Lord set out and struck down one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians; when morning dawned, they were all dead bodies.
You shall seek those who contend with you, but you shall not find them; those who war against you shall be as nothing at all.
as it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations”), in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.
Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scholar? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
Yet among the mature we do speak wisdom, though it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are being destroyed.
I have been a fool! You forced me to it. Indeed you should have been the ones commending me, for I am not at all inferior to these super-apostles, even though I am nothing.
And just as the Lord took delight in making you prosperous and numerous, so the Lord will take delight in bringing you to ruin and destruction; you shall be plucked off the land that you are entering to possess.
And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will destroy with the breath of his mouth, annihilating him by the manifestation of his coming.
Since, therefore, the children share flesh and blood, he himself likewise shared the same things, so that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil,
For in one hour all this wealth has been laid waste!” And all shipmasters and seafarers, sailors and all whose trade is on the sea, stood far off