Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
Not many mighty
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Bible References
Not many mighty
Luke 1:3
I have thoroughly investigated the entire series of events [myself], I felt it would be good for me also to write you an orderly account of them.
John 4:46
Then Jesus returned again to Cana, in Galilee, where He had turned water into wine. There was a government official there whose son was sick at Capernaum [Note: Capernaum was about
John 19:38
After this happened, one of Jesus' disciples (but secretly, for fear of the Jews), named Joseph from Arimathaea, asked Pilate if he could remove Jesus' body [from the cross]. Pilate granted him permission, so he went and removed the body from the cross.
Acts 13:7
He was with a very intelligent magistrate, [a Roman official named] Sergius Paulus. This man called for Barnabas and Saul because he wanted to hear the message of God.
Acts 17:34
But certain men continued to listen to him and became believers [in Jesus]. Among them was Dionysius, [an official] of the Areopagus, a woman named Damaris and others with them.
Philippians 4:22
All the saints [here with me] send you their greetings, especially those belonging to [Emperor] Caesar's household.
James 1:9
But the person [who must live] in humble circumstances should be happy over being lifted up [spiritually by God].
James 2:5
Listen, my dearly loved brothers; did not God choose those who are poor in the eyes of the world to be wealthy in faith and to inherit the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?
2 John 1:1
[This is being written by] the elder to the lady chosen [by God], and to her children [Note: The terms "lady" and "children" here refer to a congregation and the Christians who belong to it. See I Peter 5:13; II John 13], whom I love in the truth. [Note: Perhaps this phrase means "whom I truly love"]. And I am not the only one [to love you], but all those [other congregations] who know the truth [of God], also love you.
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Romans 9:16
So then, it does not depend on what a person wants or does, but on God, who shows pity [i.e., to whomever He wants].