1 Corinthians 1:27

Coverdale Bible (1535)

but that foolish is before the worlde, hath God chosen, that he mighte cofounde the wyse: And that weake is before ye worlde, hath God chosen, yt he mighte confounde the mightye.

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  • Jas 2:5 : 5 Harken my deare beloued brethre. Hath not God chosen the poore of this worlde, which are ryche in faith, and heyres of the kyngdom which he promysed to the that loue him?
  • 1 Cor 1:20 : 20 Where are the wyse? Where are ye scrybes? where are ye disputers of this worlde?
  • Ps 8:2 : 2 Out of the mouth of the very babes & sucklinges thou hast ordened prayse, because of thine enemies, yt thou mightest destroye the enemie and the auenger.
  • Isa 29:14 : 14 therfore wil I also shewe vnto this people, a maruelous terrible and greate thinge (Namely this:) I wil destroye the wisdome of their wise, and the vnderstodinge of their lerned men shal perish.
  • Isa 29:19 : 19 The oppressed shal holde a mery feast in the LORDE, and the poore people shal reioyse in the holy one of Israel.
  • Matt 11:25 : 25 At ye same tyme Iesus answered, and sayde: I prayse the (O father and LORDE of heauen and earth) that thou hast hid these thinges from the wyse and prudent, and opened the vnto babes.
  • Matt 21:16 : 16 and sayde vnto him: Hearest thou what these saye? Iesus sayde vnto them: Yee. Haue ye neuer red: Out of the mouth of very babes and sucklinges thou hast ordeyned prayse?
  • 2 Cor 4:7 : 7 But this treasure haue we in earthen vessels, that ye power which excelleth might be of God, and not of vs.
  • 2 Cor 10:4-5 : 4 For the wapens of oure warre are not fleshly, but mightie before God to cast downe stroge holdes, 5 wherwith we ouerthrowe ymaginacions, & euery hye thinge yt exalteth it selfe agaynst the knowlege of God, and brynge in to captiuyte all vnderstondinge to the obedience of Christ,
  • 2 Cor 10:10 : 10 For the pistles (saye they) are sore and stronge, but his bodely presence is weake, and his speache rude.
  • Luke 19:39-40 : 39 And some of the Pharises amonge the people sayde vnto him: Master, rebuke thy disciples. 40 And he answered and sayde vnto them: I tell you, yf these holde their peace, yet shal the stones crye.
  • Luke 21:15 : 15 for I wil geue you mouth & wyssdome, agaynst the which all youre aduersaries shal not be able to speake ner to resist.
  • Acts 4:11-21 : 11 This is the stone refused of you buylders, which is become the heade corner stone, 12 nether is there saluacion in eny other: Ner yet also is there geue vnto me eny other name, wherin we must be saued. 13 They sawe the boldnesse of Peter & Ihon and marueyled, for they were sure yt they were vnlerned men and laye people. And they knewe the also, that they were wt Iesu. 14 As for the man yt was made whole, they sawe hi stodinge by the, & coulde not saye agaynst it. 15 Then comaunded they the to stode asyde out of ye councell, & comened amoge the selues, 16 & saide: What shal we do to these me? for a manyfest token is done by them, and is openly knowne vnto the that dwell at Ierusalem, and we can not denye it. 17 But that it breake out no farther amoge the people, let vs threate them earnestly, that hence forth they speake of this name vnto noman. 18 And they called them, and comaunded the, that in eny wyse they shulde not speake ner teache in the name of Iesu. 19 But Peter & Ihon answered, and sayde vnto the: Iudge ye youre selues, whether it be right before God, that we shulde be more obedient vnto you, then vnto God. 20 We can not chose, but speake that we haue sene & herde. 21 But they threatened them, and let them go, and founde nothinge how to punyshe them because of ye people: for they all praysed God because of that, which was done.
  • Acts 6:9-9 : 9 Then arose there certayne of the synagoge, which is called (the synagoge) of ye Libertynes, & of the Cyrenites, and of the Alexadrines, and of the yt were of Celicia and Asia, & disputed with Steue, 10 and they coulde not resiste the wyssdome and the sprete, out of the which he spake.
  • Acts 7:35 : 35 This Moses, whom they refused, and sayde: Who made ye a ruler and iudge ouer vs? him had God sent to be a ruler & delyuerer by the hande of the angell, that appeared vnto him in the busshe.
  • Zeph 3:12 : 12 In the also wil I leaue a smal poore symple people, which shal trust in the name of the LORDE.
  • Matt 4:18-22 : 18 As Iesus walked by the see of Galile, he sawe two brethren: Simon which was called Peter, & Andrew his brother, castynge a net into ye see, for they were fisshers, 19 and he sayde vnto them: folowe me, & I will make you fisshers of me. 20 And they strayght waye lefte their nettes, and folowed hym. 21 And whan he wet forth from thence, he sawe other two brethren, Iames the sonne of zebede, and Ihon his brother, in the ship with zebede their father, mendynge their nettes, and called them. 22 And they without tarynge lefte ye shyp and their father, and folowed hym.
  • Matt 9:9 : 9 And as Iesus passed forth from thence, he sawe a man syt a receyuinge of custome, named Mathew, & sayde vnto him: folowe me.
  • Isa 26:5-6 : 5 For why, it is he, yt bringeth lowe the hie mynded citesyns, & casteth downe the proude cities. He casteth the to the groude, yee eue in to ye myre, yt they maye be trode 6 vnder the fete of the symple, & with the steppes of the poore.
  • Acts 17:18 : 18 But certayne Philosophers of ye Epicurees and Stoikes disputed with him. And some sayde: What will this babler saye? But some sayde: He semeth to be a tidinges brynger of new goddes (That was, because he had preached vnto the the Gospell of Iesus, & of the resurreccion.)
  • Acts 24:24-25 : 24 But after certayne dayes came Felix wt his wife Drusilla, which was a Iewesse, and called for Paul, and herde him of the faith in Christ. 25 Howbeit whan Paul spake off righteousnesse, and off chastite and off the iudgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered: Go thy waye for this tyme. Whan I haue a conuenyent tyme, I wil sende for the.
  • Acts 7:54 : 54 Whan they herde this, it wente thorow ye hertes of the, and they gnasshed vpo him with their tethe.

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    21Hath not God made the wyssdome of this worlde foolishnesse? For in so moch as the worlde by the wyssdome therof knewe not God in his wyssdome, it pleased God thorow foolish preachinge to saue them yt beleue.

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