1 Corinthians 1:28 - American Standard Version 2015

²⁸ and the base things of the world, and the things that are despised, did God choose, {\i yea} and the things that are not, that he might bring to nought the things that are:

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁸ and base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁸ And God also selected (deliberately chose) what in the world is lowborn and insignificant and branded and treated with contempt, even the things that are nothing, that He might depose and bring to nothing the things that are,

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁸ and the base things of the world, and the things that are despised, did God choose, yea and the things that are not, that he might bring to nought the things that are:

Common English Bible

²⁸ And God chose what the world considers low-class and low-life—what is considered to be nothing—to reduce what is considered to be something to nothing.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁸ And God has chosen the ignoble and contemptible of the world, those who are nothing, so that he may reduce to nothing those who are something.

1 Corinthians 1:28 Tagairtí Cros

Job 34:24

He breaketh in pieces mighty men {\i in ways} past finding out,\par\tab And setteth others in their stead.

Psalm 32:10

Many sorrows shall be to the wicked;\par\tab But he that trusteth in Jehovah, lovingkindness shall compass him about.

Isaiah 2:11

The lofty looks of man shall be brought low, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and Jehovah alone shall be exalted in that day.\par

Isaiah 2:17

And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; and Jehovah alone shall be exalted in that day.

Isaiah 37:36

And the angel of Jehovah went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand; and when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

Isaiah 41:12

Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that contend with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought.

Romans 4:17

(as it is written, {\b A father of many nations have I made thee}) before him whom he believed, {\i even} God, who giveth life to the dead, and calleth the things that are not, as though they were.

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 the world?

1 Corinthians 2:6

We speak wisdom, however, among them that are fullgrown: yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nought:

2 Corinthians 12:11

I am become foolish: ye compelled me; for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I am nothing.

Deuteronomy 28:63

And it shall come to pass, that, as Jehovah rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so Jehovah will rejoice over you to cause you to perish, and to destroy you; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest in to possess it.

2 Thessalonians 2:8

And then shall be revealed the lawless one, whom the Lord Jesus shall slay with the breath of his mouth, and bring to nought by the manifestation of his coming;

Hebrews 2:14

Since then the children are sharers in flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner partook of the same; that through death he might bring to nought him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;

Revelation 18:17

for in one hour so great riches is made desolate. And every shipmaster, and every one that saileth any whither, and mariners, and as many as gain their living by sea, stood afar off,