Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

and the base things of the world, and the things despised did God choose, and the things that are not, that the things that are He may make useless --

New American Standard Bible

and the base things of the world and the despised God has chosen, the things that are not, so that He may nullify the things that are,

King James Version

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:

Holman Bible

God has chosen what is insignificant and despised in the world—what is viewed as nothing—to bring to nothing what is viewed as something,

International Standard Version

And God chose what is insignificant in the world, what is despised, what is nothing, in order to destroy what is something,

A Conservative Version

And God chose the common things of the world, and the disdained things, and the things that are not, so that he might make useless the things that are,

American Standard Version

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:

Amplified

God has selected [for His purpose] the insignificant (base) things of the world, and the things that are despised and treated with contempt, [even] the things that are nothing, so that He might reduce to nothing the things that are,

An Understandable Version

And He chose what the world considers insignificant and contemptible, and [even] what it considers "nothing," in order to nullify what appears to be something.

Anderson New Testament

and the ignoble things of the world, and the things that are despised, has God chosen, and the things that are not, that he might bring to nought things that are;

Bible in Basic English

And the low things of the world, and the things without honour, did God make selection of, yes, even the things which are not, so that he might make as nothing the things which are:

Common New Testament

God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things, and the things that are not, to nullify the things that are,

Daniel Mace New Testament

those who were looked upon by the world as vile, as despicable, as nothing, these has God chosen to reduce their sufficiency to nothing.

Darby Translation

and the ignoble things of the world, and the despised, has God chosen, and things that are not, that he may annul the things that are;

Godbey New Testament

and God has chosen the base-born of the world, and those of no reputation, the things which are not, that He may set at nought the things which are,

Goodspeed New Testament

and it was what the world calls low and insignificant and unreal that God chose to nullify its realities,

John Wesley New Testament

And the base things of the world, and things that are despised, hath God chosen; yea, things that are not, to bring to nought the things that are; That no flesh may glory before him.

Julia Smith Translation

And the ignoble things of the world, and the despised things, has God chosen, and things not being, that the things being he might leave unemployed:

King James 2000

And base things of the world, and things which are despised, has God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nothing things that are:

Lexham Expanded Bible

and the insignificant of the world, and the despised, God chose, the things that are not, in order that he might abolish the things that are,

Modern King James verseion

and God has chosen the base things of the world, and things which are despised, and things which are not, in order to bring to nothing things that are;

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And vile things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things of no reputation, for to bring to nought things of reputation,

Moffatt New Testament

God has chosen what is mean and despised in the world ??things which are not, to put down things that are;

Montgomery New Testament

The world's base things has God chosen, and the things that are not, to bring to naught the things that are;

NET Bible

God chose what is low and despised in the world, what is regarded as nothing, to set aside what is regarded as something,

New Heart English Bible

And God chose the lowly of the world, and the despised, what is considered to be nothing, to bring to nothing what is considered to be something,

Noyes New Testament

and the mean things of the world, and the things which are despised, did God choose, the things which are not, to bring to nought things that are;

Sawyer New Testament

and the ignoble things of the world and things that are despised has God chosen, and things that are not, to destroy things that are,

The Emphasized Bible

And, the low-born things of the world, and the things that are despised, hath God chosen, - and the things that are not, - that, the things that are, he might bring to nought;

Thomas Haweis New Testament

and the ignoble things of the world, and the despicable, hath God elected, and the things that are not, to bring to nought the things which are,

Twentieth Century New Testament

And God chose what the world counts poor and insignificant-- things that to it are unreal-to bring its 'realities' to nothing,

Webster

And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, and things which are not, to bring to naught things that are:

Weymouth New Testament

and the things which the world regards as base, and those which it sets utterly at nought--things that have no existence--God has chosen in order to reduce to nothing things that do exist;

Williams New Testament

what the world calls of low degree, yea, what it counts as nothing and what it thinks does not exist, God chose to put a stop to what it thinks exists,

World English Bible

and God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that are not, that he might bring to nothing the things that are:

Worrell New Testament

and the base things of the world, and things despised, did God choose, and the things that are not, that He might bring to nought the things that are;

Worsley New Testament

and things in the opinion of the world ignoble, and despicable, and accounted as nothing, hath God chosen, to abolish things that are in esteem among men;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

G36
ἀγενής 
Agenes 
Usage: 1

of the world
κόσμος 
Kosmos 
Usage: 109

and

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0






which, who, the things, the son,
which, who, the things, the son,
which, who, the things, the son,
Usage: 0
Usage: 0
Usage: 0

ἐξουθενέω 
Exoutheneo 
Usage: 11

ἐκλέγομαι 
Eklegomai 
Usage: 14

God
θεός 
theos 
Usage: 1151

ἐκλέγομαι 
Eklegomai 
Usage: 14

yea, and

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

ὤν οὖσα ὄν 
On 
being, when ... was, which is, that is, not tr,
Usage: 128

not
μή 
me 
not, no, that not, God forbid 9, lest, neither, no man , but, none, not translated,
Usage: 493

to
ἵνα 
Hina 
that, to,
Usage: 472

καταργέω 
Katargeo 
Usage: 25

Images 1 Corinthians 1:28

Prayers for 1 Corinthians 1:28

Context Readings

Boast In The Lord

27 but the foolish things of the world did God choose, that the wise He may put to shame; and the weak things of the world did God choose that He may put to shame the strong; 28 and the base things of the world, and the things despised did God choose, and the things that are not, that the things that are He may make useless -- 29 that no flesh may glory before Him;


Cross References

Romans 4:17

who is father of us all (according as it hath been written -- 'A father of many nations I have set thee,') before Him whom he did believe -- God, who is quickening the dead, and is calling the things that be not as being.

Job 34:19-20

That hath not accepted the person of princes, Nor hath known the rich before the poor, For a work of His hands are all of them.

Job 34:24

He breaketh the mighty -- no searching! And He appointeth others in their stead.

1 Corinthians 2:6

And wisdom we speak among the perfect, and wisdom not of this age, nor of the rulers of this age -- of those becoming useless,

Psalm 37:35-36

I have seen the wicked terrible, And spreading as a green native plant,

Isaiah 2:11

The haughty eyes of man have been humbled, And bowed down hath been the loftiness of men, And set on high hath Jehovah alone been in that day.

Isaiah 2:17

And bowed down hath been the haughtiness of man, And humbled the loftiness of men, And set on high hath Jehovah alone been in that day.

Isaiah 17:13-14

Nations as the wasting of many waters are wasted, And He hath pushed against it, And it hath fled afar off, And been pursued as chaff of hills before wind, And as a rolling thing before a hurricane.

Revelation 18:17

'And every shipmaster, and all the company upon the ships, and sailors, and as many as work the sea, far off stood,

Deuteronomy 28:63

'And it hath been, as Jehovah hath rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so doth Jehovah rejoice over you to destroy you, and to lay you waste; and ye have been pulled away from off the ground whither thou art going in to possess it;

Psalm 32:10

Many are the pains of the wicked; As to him who is trusting in Jehovah, Kindness doth compass him.

Isaiah 37:36

And a messenger of Jehovah goeth out, and smiteth in the camp of Asshur a hundred and eighty and five thousand; and men rise early in the morning, and lo, all of them are dead corpses.

Isaiah 41:12

Thou seekest them, and findest them not, The men who debate with thee, They are as nothing, yea, as nothing, The men who war with thee.

Daniel 2:34-35

Thou wast looking till that a stone hath been cut out without hands, and it hath smitten the image on its feet, that are of iron and of clay, and it hath broken them small;

Daniel 2:44-45

And in the days of these kings raise up doth the God of the heavens a kingdom that is not destroyed -- to the age, and its kingdom to another people is not left: it beateth small and endeth all these kingdoms, and it standeth to the age.

2 Corinthians 12:11

I have become a fool -- boasting; ye -- ye did compel me; for I ought by you to have been commended, for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles -- even if I am nothing.

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