 | John Bunyan - 1814 - 542 pages
...the Corinthians, were more fully exemplified than in Mr. John Bunyan. The words are these : " For you see your calling, brethren ; how that not many wise...are called; but God hath chosen the foolish things of .the world to confound the wise ; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the... | |
 | Benjamin Moore - 1824
...rejected by artful hypocrites, wealthy sensualists, and supercilious tyrants : as the apostle observed ; " Ye " see your calling, brethren, how that not many...not many mighty, not many " noble are called." But, while these, with fatal disregard to their best interests, spurned the blessing from them ; whenever... | |
 | David Allen - Religion - 2005 - 88 pages
...God. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. For Ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many...the things which are mighty; and base things of the world, and things which are mighty; and base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath... | |
 | Akinwale Akindiya - Religion - 2005 - 100 pages
...Because of their "wisdom", the gospel becomes foolishness to them and they become candidates of hell. "For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many...the things which are mighty; And base things of the world, and things which are despised hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to naught... | |
 | Wanda Jo Pence - Religion - 2005 - 116 pages
...righteousness but, with a heart that is far removed from Him, return to the world on Monday. Paul writes, "For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many...the things which are mighty; And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to naught... | |
 | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Philosophy - 2005 - 296 pages
...God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. Not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: But God hath...the things which are mighty; And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought... | |
 | Ikechukwu Umejesi - Poetry - 2005 - 404 pages
...ordain praise from the lips of the great men and royals. Paul elucidates that point in ICor. 1:26-29, "For ye see your calling, brethren how that not many...are called. But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the... | |
 | Thomas Traherne - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 571 pages
...determine to chuse the Weak and not the Mighty: as we see by daily Experience and Sensible Effect. For you see your Calling, Brethren, how that not many Wise...are called: But God hath chosen the foolish things of the World, to confound the Wise; and God hath chosen the Weak things of the World, to confound the... | |
 | Phillip Gary Richards - Religion - 2005 - 212 pages
...God. We need to understand that often the Lord chooses the least likely candidates in the natural. For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called (1 Cor. 1:26, KJV). But God hath chosen the foolish... | |
 | Emma J. Lapsansky-Werner, Margaret Hope Bacon - Social Science - 2010
...on account of their own weakness — when they remember "That not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:" "But God hath chosen the foolish things of the World to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the... | |
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For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called : but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to... 
