1 Corinthians 1:26 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

More versions

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

Hearken, my beloved brethren; did not God choose them that are poor as to the world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to them that love him?

1 Corinthians 2:8

which none of the rulers of this world knoweth: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory:

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 the world?

Luke 10:21

In that same hour he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou didst hide these things from the wise and understanding, and didst reveal them unto babes: yea, Father; for so it was well-pleasing in thy sight.

Luke 1:3

it seemed good to me also, having traced the course of all things accurately from the first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus;

1 Corinthians 2:13

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

2 John 1:1

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

Philippians 4:22

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

Acts 17:34

But certain men clave unto him, and believed: among whom also was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

Acts 13:12

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

Acts 13:7

which was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of understanding. The same called unto him Barnabas and Saul, and sought to hear the word of God.

Zephaniah 3:12

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

Job 37:24

Men do therefore fear him: He regardeth not any that are wise of heart.

Romans 11:29

For the gifts and the calling of God are without repentance.

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.