1 Corinthians 1:26 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁶ Consider your own call, brothers and sisters: not many of you were wise by human standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth.

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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.

1 Corinthians 1:26 Cross References

James 2:5

Listen, my beloved brothers and sisters. Has not God chosen the poor in the world to be rich in faith and to be heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him?

1 Corinthians 2:8

and which none of the rulers of this age understood, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

1 Corinthians 1:20

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?

Luke 10:21

At that very hour Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and the intelligent and have revealed them to infants; yes, Father, for such was your gracious will.

Luke 1:3

I, too, decided, as one having a grasp of everything from the start, to write a well-ordered account for you, most excellent Theophilus,

1 Corinthians 2:13

And we speak of these things in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual things to those who are spiritual.

2 John 1:1

The elder to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth, and not only I but also all who know the truth,

Philippians 4:22

All the saints greet you, especially those of the emperor’s household.

Acts 17:34

But some of them joined him and became believers, including Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris and others with them.

Acts 13:12

When the proconsul saw what had happened, he believed, for he was astonished at the teaching about the Lord.

Acts 13:7

He was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man who summoned Barnabas and Saul and wanted to hear the word of God.

Zephaniah 3:12

For I will leave in the midst of you a people humble and lowly. They shall seek refuge in the name of the Lord—

Job 37:24

Therefore mortals fear him; he does not regard any who are wise in their own conceit.”

Romans 11:29

for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.

2 Kings 5:4

So Naaman went in and told his lord just what the girl from the land of Israel had said.