Catholic Public Domain Version
"So take care of your vocation, brothers. For not many are wise according to the flesh, not many are powerful, not many are noble. "
— 1 Corinthians 1:26, Catholic Public Domain Version
“For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: ”
“For behold your calling, brethren, that not many wise after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: ”
“For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble;”
“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.”
“For see your vocation, brethren, that there are not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble.”
“For you see God's design for you, my brothers, that he has not taken a great number of the wise after the flesh, not the strong, not the noble:”
“For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: ”
But we are preaching Christ crucified. Certainly, to the Jews, this is a scandal, and to the Gentiles, this is foolishness.
But to those who have been called, Jews as well as Greeks, the Christ is the virtue of God and the wisdom of God.
For what is foolishness to God is considered wise by men, and that which is weakness to God is considered strong by men.
So take care of your vocation, brothers. For not many are wise according to the flesh, not many are powerful, not many are noble.
But God has chosen the foolish of the world, so that he may confound the wise. And God has chosen the weak of the world, so that he may confound the strong.
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.
So then, nothing that is of the flesh should glory in his sight.