1 Corinthians 1:28 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁸ God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing 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 Križne Reference

Job 34:24

He shatters the mighty without investigation, and sets others in their place.

Psalm 32:10

Many are the pangs of the wicked; but steadfast love surrounds him who trusts in the Lord.

Isaiah 2:11

The haughty looks of man shall be brought low, and the pride of men shall be humbled; and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.

Isaiah 2:17

And the haughtiness of man shall be humbled, and the pride of men shall be brought low; and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.

Isaiah 37:36

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

Isaiah 41:12

You shall seek those who contend with you, but you shall not find them; those who war against you shall be as nothing at all.

Romans 4:17

as it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations”—in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.

1 Corinthians 1:20

Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

1 Corinthians 2:6

Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away.

2 Corinthians 12:11

I have been a fool! You forced me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I was not at all inferior to these superlative apostles, even though I am nothing.

Deuteronomy 28:63

And as the Lord took delight in doing you good and multiplying you, so the Lord will take delight in bringing ruin upon you and destroying you; and you shall be plucked off the land which you are entering to take possession of it.

2 Thessalonians 2:8

And then the lawless one will be revealed, and the Lord Jesus will slay him with the breath of his mouth and destroy him by his appearing and his coming.

Hebrews 2:14

Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same nature, that through death he might destroy him who has the power of death, that is, the devil,

Revelation 18:17

In one hour all this wealth has been laid waste.” And all shipmasters and seafaring men, sailors and all whose trade is on the sea, stood far off