 | Erich Fromm - 1963 - 232 Seiten
...and third generations of most of the Christian communities as well as for the apostolic period: "For consider your call, brethren; not many of you were...world to shame the wise, God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong, God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not,... | |
 | John R. W. Stott - 1961 - 132 Seiten
...Corinthian readers of the circumstances of their own conversion. For consider your call, brethren, he says; not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful . . . (v. 26). Exactly! If men are obsessed with their own power or wisdom, they are not willing humbly... | |
 | Harry R. Boer - 1976 - 204 Seiten
...true picture of the church was reflected in Paul's words in the first chapter of I Corinthians: "For consider your call, brethren; not many of you were...world to shame the wise. God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong, God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not,... | |
 | Adrien Nocent - 1977 - 420 Seiten
...not God chosen those who are poor in the world. . . ?" Paul says the same thing to the Corinthians: "God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise . . ." (1 Cor. 1:27-29). The whole of the Old Testament is very much concerned with the poor, and the... | |
 | Shūsaku Endō - 1978 - 190 Seiten
...later to describe the early Christian church at Corinth can well be applied to these disciples too: "Not many of you were wise according to worldly standards,...many were powerful, not many were of noble birth." It would be a mistake to suppose that these men became disciples of Jesus only after coming to appreciate... | |
 | Origen - 1979 - 324 Seiten
...nation," which God chose through the coming of Christ Jesus and His disciples. For the apostle says, "For consider your call, brethren; not many of you were...birth; but God chose what is foolish in the world . . . even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are," so that Israel according to the... | |
 | John Saward - 1980 - 264 Seiten
...whom it is preached are weak too. God chooses the most unlikely candidates to fulfil his purposes. but God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong, God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not... | |
 | Roy A. Harrisville - 1980 - 278 Seiten
...community itself attests to the impossibility of boasting, and thus to the freedom of the divine decree: "Not many of you were wise according to worldly standards,...many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. . . ." 20. The concept "by faith" occurs eleven times in Romans; twice in 1:17; in 3:28; twice in 4:16;... | |
 | Allan Starling - 1981 - 276 Seiten
...to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified" (I Corinthians 2:2). He also said, "Consider your call, brethren, not many of you were wise according to worldly standards " (I Corinthians 1:26). It is useful to be qualified both educationally and spiritually, but the spiritual... | |
 | Peter F. Ellis - 1982 - 302 Seiten
...2!For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. (a') "For consider your call, brethren; not many of you were...world to shame the wise, God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong, 28God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are... | |
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God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong, God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might... 
