So Naaman went in and told his lord just what the girl from the land of Israel had said.
1 Corinthians 1:26 - New Revised Standard Version 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. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) For behold your calling, brethren, that not many wise after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: Common English Bible 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 So take care of your vocation, brothers. For not many are wise according to the flesh, not many are powerful, not many are noble. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For see your vocation, brethren, that there are not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble: |
So Naaman went in and told his lord just what the girl from the land of Israel had said.
Therefore mortals fear him; he does not regard any who are wise in their own conceit.”
For I will leave in the midst of you a people humble and lowly. They shall seek refuge in the name of the Lord—
I too decided, after investigating everything carefully from the very first, to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus,
At that same 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.
When the proconsul saw what had happened, he believed, for he was astonished at the teaching about the Lord.
He was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man, who summoned Barnabas and Saul and wanted to hear the word of God.
But some of them joined him and became believers, including Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
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.
None of the rulers of this age understood this; for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
All the saints greet you, especially those of the emperor's household.
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?
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,