1 Corinthians 1:27

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

But the foolish things of the world hath God chosen, that he may confound the wise; and the weak things of the world hath God chosen, that he may confound the strong.

Cross References

James 2:5

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

Matthew 11:25

At that time Jesus answered and said: I confess to thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them to the little ones.

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?

Psalm 8:2

O Lord our Lord, how admirable is thy name in the whole earth! For thy magnificence is elevated above the heavens.

Isaiah 29:14

Therefore, behold, I will proceed to cause an admiration in this people, by a great and wonderful miracle: for wisdom shall perish from their wise men, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.

Luke 21:15

For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to resist and gainsay.

2 Corinthians 4:7

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency may be of the power of God, and not of us.

Matthew 21:16

And said to him: Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus said to them: Yea, have you never read: Out of the mouth of infants and of sucklings thou hast perfected praise?

Zephaniah 3:12

And I will leave in the midst of thee a poor and needy people: and they shall hope in the name of the Lord.

2 Corinthians 10:10

(For his epistles indeed, say they, are weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible,)

Isaiah 29:19

And the meek shall increase their joy in the Lord: and the poor men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

Matthew 9:9

And when Jesus passed on from hence, he saw a man sitting in the custom house, named Matthew; and he saith to him: Follow me. And he rose up and followed him.

Acts 17:18

And certain philosophers of the Epicureans and of the Stoics disputed with him; and some said: What is it, that this word sower would say? But others: He seemeth to be a setter forth of new gods; because he preached to them Jesus and the resurrection.

Acts 7:54

Now hearing these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed with their teeth at him.

Acts 7:35

This Moses, whom they refused, saying: Who hath appointed thee prince and judge? him God sent to be prince and redeemer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

Isaiah 44:25

That make void the tokens of diviners and make the soothsayers mad: that turn the wise backward, and that: make their knowledge foolish:

Jeremiah 8:9

The wise men are confounded, they are dismayed and taken: for they have cast away the word of the Lord, and there is no wisdom in them.

1 Corinthians 1:21

For seeing that in the wisdom of God the world, by wisdom, knew not God, it pleased God, by the foolishness of our preaching, to save them that believe.

1 Corinthians 2:12

Now we have received not the spirit of this world, but the Spirit that is of God; that we may know the things that are given us from God.

Numbers 22:30

The ass said: Am not I thy beast, on which thou hast been always accustomed to ride until this present day? Tell me if I ever did the like thing to thee. But he said: Never.