1 Corinthians 1:28 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

²⁸ and God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that are not, that he might bring to nothing 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 breaks in pieces mighty men in ways past finding out, and sets others in their place.

Psalm 32:10

Many sorrows come to the wicked, but loving kindness shall surround him who trusts in the LORD.

Isaiah 2:11

The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the haughtiness of men will be bowed down, and the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.

Isaiah 2:17

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

Isaiah 37:36

The angel of the LORD went out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the camp of the Ashur. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

Isaiah 41:12

You will seek them, and won't find them, even those who contend with you. Those who war against you will be as nothing, as a non-existant thing.

Romans 4:17

As it is written, *I have made you a father of many nations.* This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.

1 Corinthians 1:20

Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the Torah scholar of this world? Hasn't God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

1 Corinthians 2:6

We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown; yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing.

2 Corinthians 12:11

I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for in nothing was I inferior to the very best emissaries, though I am nothing.

Deuteronomy 28:63

It shall happen that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so the LORD will rejoice over you to cause you to perish, and to destroy you; and you shall be plucked from off the land where you go in to possess it.

2 Thessalonians 2:8

Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will kill with the breath of his mouth, and destroy by the manifestation of his coming;

Hebrews 2:14

Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,

Revelation 18:17

For in an hour such great riches are made desolate.' Every shipmaster, and everyone who sails anywhere, and mariners, and as many as gain their living by sea, stood far away,