Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. New Living Translation Remember, dear brothers and sisters, that few of you were wise in the world’s eyes or powerful or wealthy when God called you. English Standard Version For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. Berean Standard Bible Brothers, consider the time of your calling: Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were powerful; not many were of noble birth. Berean Literal Bible For consider your calling, brothers, that not many were wise according to the flesh, not many powerful, not many of noble birth. King James Bible For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: New King James Version For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. New American Standard Bible For consider your calling, brothers and sisters, that there were not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble; NASB 1995 For consider your calling, brethren, that there were not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble; NASB 1977 For consider your calling, brethren, that there were not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble; Legacy Standard Bible For consider your calling, brothers, that there were not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble. Amplified Bible Just look at your own calling, believers; not many [of you were considered] wise according to human standards, not many powerful or influential, not many of high and noble birth. Christian Standard Bible Brothers and sisters, consider your calling: Not many were wise from a human perspective, not many powerful, not many of noble birth. Holman Christian Standard Bible Brothers, consider your calling: Not many are wise from a human perspective, not many powerful, not many of noble birth. American Standard Version For behold your calling, brethren, that not many wise after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: Aramaic Bible in Plain English For you see also your calling my brethren, that not many among you are wise in the flesh, neither are many among you mighty, neither are many among you children of a great family line. Contemporary English Version My dear friends, remember what you were when God chose you. The people of this world didn't think that many of you were wise. Only a few of you were in places of power, and not many of you came from important families. Douay-Rheims Bible For see your vocation, brethren, that there are not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble: English Revised Version For behold your calling, brethren, how that not many wise after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: GOD'S WORD® Translation Brothers and sisters, consider what you were when God called you to be Christians. Not many of you were wise from a human point of view. You were not in powerful positions or in the upper social classes. Good News Translation Now remember what you were, my friends, when God called you. From the human point of view few of you were wise or powerful or of high social standing. International Standard Version Brothers, think about your own calling. Not many of you were wise by human standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. Literal Standard Version for see your calling, brothers, that not many [are] wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble; Majority Standard Bible Brothers, consider the time of your calling: Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were powerful; not many were of noble birth. New American Bible Consider your own calling, brothers. Not many of you were wise by human standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. NET Bible Think about the circumstances of your call, brothers and sisters. Not many were wise by human standards, not many were powerful, not many were born to a privileged position. New Revised Standard Version Consider your own call, brothers and sisters: not many of you were wise by human standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. New Heart English Bible For consider your calling, brothers, that not many were wise from a human perspective, not many mighty, not many of noble birth. Webster's Bible Translation For ye see your calling, brethren, that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called: Weymouth New Testament For consider, brethren, God's call to you. Not many who are wise with merely human wisdom, not many of position and influence, not many of noble birth have been called. World English Bible For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble; Young's Literal Translation for see your calling, brethren, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble; Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Wisdom from God25For the foolishness of God is wiser than man’s wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man’s strength. 26 Brothers, consider the time of your calling: Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were powerful; not many were of noble birth. 27But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.… Cross References Job 37:24 Therefore, men fear Him, for He is not partial to the wise in heart." Matthew 11:25 At that time Jesus declared, "I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Romans 11:29 For God's gifts and His call are irrevocable. 1 Corinthians 1:20 Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 1 Corinthians 2:8 None of the rulers of this age understood it. For if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. Treasury of Scripture For you see your calling, brothers, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: that. 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 this world? 1 Corinthians 2:3-6,13 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling… 1 Corinthians 3:18-20 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise… not many mighty. Luke 1:3 It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus, Luke 18:24,25 And when Jesus saw that he was very sorrowful, he said, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God! … John 4:46-53 So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum… Jump to Previous Birth Consider Design Flesh God's Great High-Born Human Influence Influential Merely Mighty Noble Position Powerful Standards Strong Think Wisdom Wise WorldlyJump to Next Birth Consider Design Flesh God's Great High-Born Human Influence Influential Merely Mighty Noble Position Powerful Standards Strong Think Wisdom Wise Worldly1 Corinthians 1 1. After his salutation and thanksgiving for the Corinthians,10. Paul exhorts them to unity, 12. and reproves their dissensions. 18. God destroys the wisdom of the wise, 21. by the foolishness of preaching; 26. and calls not the wise, mighty, and noble, 28. but the foolish, weak, and men of no account. (26) For ye see your calling.--Better, imperative (as in 1Corinthians 8:9; 1Corinthians 10:18; 1Corinthians 16:10), For see your calling. The Apostle directs them to look at the facts regarding their own calling to Christianity, as an illustration of the truth of what he has just written, viz., that though there were, perhaps, a few of high birth and education who were called, and responded to that call, yet that these are "not many." It has been well remarked, "the ancient Christians were, for the greater part, slaves and persons of humble rank; the whole history of the progress of the Church is in fact a gradual triumph of the unlearned over the learned, of the lowly over the great, until the emperor himself cast his crown at the foot of Christ's cross" (Olshausen); or, as an English writer puts it, "Christianity with the irresistible might of its weakness shook the world."Verses 26-31. - The method of God in the spread of the gospel. Verse 26. - For behold; or, consider (imperative, as in 1 Corinthians 10:15; Philippians 3:2). Your calling; the nature and method of your heavenly calling; the "principle God has followed in calling you" (Beza); see Ephesians 4:1; Hebrews 3:1. Not many wise after the flesh. Those who hear the calling arc alone the truly wise; but they are net wise with a carnal wisdom, not wise as men count wisdom; they have but little of the wisdom of the serpent and the wisdom of "this age." The Sanhedrin looked down on the apostles as "unlearned and ignorant men" (Acts 4:13). "God," says St. Augustine, "caught orators by fishermen, not fishermen by orators." Not many mighty; i.e. not many persons of power and influence. Almost the first avowed Gentile Christian of the highest rank was the consul Flavius Clemens, uncle of the Emperor Domitian. This was the more marked because the Jews won many rich and noble proselytes, such as the Queen Helena and the royal family of Adiabene, Poppaea the wife of Nero, and others. The only illustrious converts mentioned in the New Testament are Joseph of Arimathaea, Nicodemus, Sergius Paulus, and Dionysius the Areopagitc. Not many noble. All this was a frequent taunt against Christians, but they made it their boast. Christianity came to redeem and elevate, not the few, but the many, and the many must ever be the weak and the humble. Hence Christ called fishermen as his apostles, and was known as "the Friend of publicans and sinners." None of the rulers believed on him (John 7:48). It must, however, be borne in mind that these words apply mainly and primarily to the first age of Christianity. It was essential that its victory should be due to Divine weapons only, and that it should shake the world "by the irresistible might of weakness." After a time, the wisest and the noblest and the most powerful were called. Kings became the nursing fathers of the gospel, and queens its nursing mothers. Yet the ideal truth remains, and human power shows utter weakness, and human wisdom is capable of sinking into the depths of folly. Parallel Commentaries ... Greek Brothers,ἀδελφοί (adelphoi) Noun - Vocative Masculine Plural Strong's 80: A brother, member of the same religious community, especially a fellow-Christian. A brother near or remote. consider Βλέπετε (Blepete) Verb - Present Indicative Active - 2nd Person Plural Strong's 991: (primarily physical), I look, see, perceive, discern. A primary verb; to look at. [ the time of ] your ὑμῶν (hymōn) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 2nd Person Plural Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou. calling: κλῆσιν (klēsin) Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular Strong's 2821: A calling, invitation; in the NT, always of a divine call. From a shorter form of kaleo; an invitation. Not οὐ (ou) Adverb Strong's 3756: No, not. Also ouk, and ouch a primary word; the absolute negative adverb; no or not. many [of you] πολλοὶ (polloi) Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural Strong's 4183: Much, many; often. [were] wise σοφοὶ (sophoi) Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural Strong's 4680: Wise, learned, cultivated, skilled, clever. Akin to saphes; wise. by human standards; κατὰ (kata) Preposition Strong's 2596: A primary particle; down, in varied relations (genitive, dative or accusative) with which it is joined). not οὐ (ou) Adverb Strong's 3756: No, not. Also ouk, and ouch a primary word; the absolute negative adverb; no or not. many [were] πολλοὶ (polloi) Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural Strong's 4183: Much, many; often. powerful; δυνατοί (dynatoi) Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural Strong's 1415: (a) of persons: powerful, able, (b) of things: possible. From dunamai; powerful or capable; neuter possible. not οὐ (ou) Adverb Strong's 3756: No, not. Also ouk, and ouch a primary word; the absolute negative adverb; no or not. many [were] πολλοὶ (polloi) Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural Strong's 4183: Much, many; often. of noble birth. εὐγενεῖς (eugeneis) Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural Strong's 2104: (a) of noble birth, of high birth, (b) noble in nature. From eu and ginomai; well born, i.e. high in rank, or generous. 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