Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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:

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Bible References

Things which

Romans 4:17
as it is written, I have made you a father of many nations before God in whom he believed, who makes the dead alive and calls things which do not exist as existing.??18 who against hope believed in hope that he should become a father of many nations according to the saying shall your posterity be.
2 Corinthians 12:11
I have become foolish; you compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you; for in nothing am I behind the chief of the apostles, though I also am nothing.

To bring

1 Corinthians 2:6
But we speak wisdom among the perfect, but not the wisdom of this life, nor of the rulers of this life, who are destroyed;
Revelation 18:17
for in one hour are so great riches made a desolation. And every sailing-master and every one who sails to the place, and sailors and all that work on the sea, shall stand afar off,

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Romans 9:16
Therefore, it is not of him that wills nor of him that runs, but of God that exercises mercy.