1 Corinthians 1:28 - Tree of Life Version

²⁸ and God chose the lowly and despised things of the world, the things that are as nothing, so 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 shatters the mighty without inquiry, and sets others in their place.

Psalm 32:10

Many are the sorrows of the wicked, but lovingkindness surrounds the one who trusts in Adonai.

Isaiah 2:11

The man of haughty eyes is humbled, the lofty ones brought low, for Adonai alone will be exalted in that day.

Isaiah 2:17

The pride of man will be humbled, the arrogance of men abased, for Adonai alone will be exalted in that day.

Isaiah 37:36

Then the angel of Adonai went out and struck down 185,000 men in the Assyrian camp. When the men arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.

Isaiah 41:12

Though you will look for those who contended with you, you will not find them. Those who warred against you will be as nothing at all.

Romans 4:17

(as it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations”). He is our father in the sight of God in whom he trusted, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence that which does not exist.

1 Corinthians 1:20

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?

1 Corinthians 2:6

We do speak wisdom, however, among those who are mature—but not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.

2 Corinthians 12:11

I have become a fool—you drove me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I am in no way inferior to the super-special emissaries—though I am nothing.

Deuteronomy 28:63

Now just as Adonai rejoiced over you to do you good and to multiply you, so Adonai will rejoice over you to ruin and destroy you; and you will be uprooted from the land that you are going in to possess.

2 Thessalonians 2:8

Then the lawless one will be revealed. The Lord Yeshua will slay him with the breath of His mouth and wipe him out with the appearance of His coming.

Hebrews 2:14

Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared the same humanity—so that through death He might break the power of the one who had the power of death (that is, the devil)

Revelation 18:17

For in a single hour so much wealth has been ruined!” And every ship captain and passenger, sailors and all who make their living at sea, stood at a distance