 | James Buchanan - 1842 - 610 pages
...foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty, and base things...nought things that are, that no flesh should glory in his presence." It is manifest that these, or some other circumstances of a like nature in his condition,... | |
 | Saint John Henry Newman - 1842 - 442 pages
...foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty ; and base things...nought things that are : that no flesh should glory in His presence V Once more ; consider the Book of Psalms, which, if any part of the Old Testament, belongs... | |
 | John R. Rice - 1971 - 576 pages
...foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; And base things...nought things that are: That no flesh should glory in his presence" (I Cor. 1:26-29). Oh, let us rejoice that ordinarily God chooses to use poor people instead... | |
 | H. L. Willmington - 1981 - 1038 pages
...foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to w shall we do? And he answered, Fear not: for they...I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And his presence." Thus, in manifesting his own glory, God delighted in choosing: a. The foolish things... | |
 | Herbert Lockyer - 1988 - 284 pages
...foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty, and base things...nought things that are: that no flesh should glory in his presence" ( I Cor. 1:27-31, See Matt. 21:31). It was the Galileans, then, who received their privileges,... | |
 | David Walters - 1992 - 118 pages
...foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; and base things...nought things that are; that no flesh should glory in his presence. I encourage the children that God has chosen the foolish and the weak, the dummies and... | |
 | Michael E. Evans - 1991 - 286 pages
...foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things oftheworld to confound the things which are mighty; And base things...nought things that are: That no flesh should glory in his presence. But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness,... | |
 | Pierre Bayle, Craig Brush - 1991 - 496 pages
...foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; and base things...nought things that are: that no flesh should glory in his presence. But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness,... | |
 | Reinhold Niebuhr - 1989 - 316 pages
...foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; And base things...nought things that are: That no flesh should glory in his presence. (I Corinthians 1:26-29) The apostle Paul could hardly have given Nietzsche's quarrel... | |
 | Mark A. Noll - 1992 - 596 pages
...choosing "the foolish things of the world to confound the wise ... the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; and base things...nought things that are: that no flesh should glory in his presence." The historian Donald Mathews phrases it similarly when he describes how evangelical... | |
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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 things which are mighty; and base things of the world, and things which are despised hath God chosen, yea, and things... 
