1 Corinthians 1:26 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

²⁶ For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ For [simply] consider your own call, brethren; not many [of you were considered to be] wise according to human estimates and standards, not many influential and powerful, not many of high and noble birth.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ For behold your calling, brethren, that not many wise after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:

Common English Bible

²⁶ Look at your situation when you were called, brothers and sisters! By ordinary human standards not many were wise, not many were powerful, not many were from the upper class.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ So take care of your vocation, brothers. For not many are wise according to the flesh, not many are powerful, not many are noble.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁶ For see your vocation, brethren, that there are not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble:

1 Corinthians 1:26 Cross References

2 Kings 5:4

And one went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus and thus said the maid that is of the land of Israel.

Job 37:24

Men do therefore fear him: he respecteth not any that are wise of heart.

Zephaniah 3:12

I will also leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people, and they shall trust in the name of the Lord.

Luke 1:3

it seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent The-oph´ilus,

Luke 10:21

In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight.

Acts 13:12

Then the deputy, when he saw what was done, believed, being astonished at the doctrine of the Lord.

Acts 13:7

which was with the deputy of the country, Sergius Paulus, a prudent man; who called for Barnabas and Saul, and desired to hear the word of God.

Acts 17:34

Howbeit certain men clave unto him, and believed: among the which was Di-onys´ius the Areop´agite, and a woman named Dam´aris, and others with them.

Romans 11:29

For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.

1 Corinthians 1:20

Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

1 Corinthians 2:13

Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

1 Corinthians 2:8

which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

Philippians 4:22

All the saints salute you, chiefly they that are of Caesar's household.

James 2:5

Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?

2 John 1:1

The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth;