1 Corinthians 1:26

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

Cross References

2 Kings 5:4

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

Job 37:24

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

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—

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,

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.

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.

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.

Romans 11:29

for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.

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?

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.

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.

Philippians 4:22

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

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?

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,