1 Corinthians 1:28 - Modern English Version And God has chosen the base things of the world and things which are despised. Yes, and He chose things which did not exist to bring to nothing things that do, More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And God also selected (deliberately chose) what in the world is lowborn and insignificant and branded and treated with contempt, even the things that are nothing, that He might depose and bring to nothing the things that are, American Standard Version (1901) 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: Common English Bible And God chose what the world considers low-class and low-life—what is considered to be nothing—to reduce what is considered to be something to nothing. Catholic Public Domain Version And God has chosen the ignoble and contemptible of the world, those who are nothing, so that he may reduce to nothing those who are something. |