So Naaman went in and told his master, saying, “Thus and thus spoke the girl who is from the land of Israel.”
1 Corinthians 1:26 - Tree of Life Version For you see your calling, brothers and sisters, that not many are wise according to human standards, not many are powerful, and not many are born well. 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 master, saying, “Thus and thus spoke the girl who is from the land of Israel.”
Therefore people fear Him; He does not regard all the wise of heart.”
But I will leave among you a people meek and humble. They will take refuge in the Name of Adonai.
Therefore it seemed best to me also, because I have carefully investigated everything from the beginning, to write for you an orderly record, most excellent Theophilus,
In that very hour, He was overjoyed in the Ruach ha-Kodesh and said, “I praise You, Father, Master of the universe, that You have hidden these things from the wise and discerning and revealed them to infants. Yes, Father, for this way was pleasing to You.
When he saw what had happened, the proconsul believed, because he was astonished at the teaching about the Lord.
He was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man. This man summoned Barnabas and Saul and sought to hear the word of God.
But some men joined with him and believed—among them Dionysius (a member of the council of the Aereopagus), a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
Where is the wise one? Where is the Torah scholar? Where is the debater of this age? Hasn’t God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
These things we also speak—not in words taught by human wisdom but in words taught by the Ruach, explaining the spiritual to the spiritual.
None of the rulers of this age understood it—for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
Listen, my dear brothers and sisters. Didn’t God choose the poor in this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the Kingdom that He promised to those who love Him?
The elder. To the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth—and not I alone, but also all who have come to know the truth—