1 Corinthians 1:27

English Majority Text Version

But God chose the foolish things of the world in order that He might humiliate the wise, and God chose the weak things of the world in order that He might humiliate the mighty.

Cross References

Matthew 11:25

At that time Jesus answered and said, "I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent, and have revealed them to babes.

Matthew 21:16

and said to Him, "Do You hear what these children are saying?" And Jesus said to them, "Yes. Did you never read, 'Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have perfected praise'?"

Matthew 9:9

And as Jesus passed on from there, He saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax office. And He said to him, "Follow Me." And arising, he followed Him.

Luke 21:15

for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to contradict nor to withstand.

Acts 17:18

And also some of the Epicurean and of the Stoic philosophers were conversing with him. And some were saying, "What does this seed-picker wish to say?" But others said, "He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign deities," because he was preaching the good news of Jesus and the resurrection.

Acts 7:35

This Moses whom they denied, saying, 'Who appointed you a ruler and a judge?' This man God sent as a ruler and redeemer by the hand of the Angel who appeared to him in the bush.

Acts 7:54

Now hearing these things they were infuriated in their hearts, and were gnashing their teeth against him.

1 Corinthians 1:20

Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

1 Corinthians 1:21

For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, God was well pleased, through the foolishness of our preaching, to save those that believe.

1 Corinthians 2:12

Now we did not receive the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, in order that we might know the things granted to us by God;

2 Corinthians 10:10

"For his letters," they say, "are severe and boisterous, but his bodily presence is feeble, and his speech amounts to nothing."

2 Corinthians 4:7

But we have this treasure in clay vessels, so that the extraordinary character of the power may be of God and not of us;

James 2:5

Listen, my beloved brothers. Did God not choose the poor of the world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those that love Him?