1 Corinthians 1:28

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and the base things of the world, and the things despised did God choose, and the things that are not, that the things that are He may make useless --

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  • Rom 4:17 : 17 who is father of us all (according as it hath been written -- `A father of many nations I have set thee,') before Him whom he did believe -- God, who is quickening the dead, and is calling the things that be not as being.
  • Job 34:24 : 24 He breaketh the mighty -- no searching! And He appointeth others in their stead.
  • Job 34:19-20 : 19 That hath not accepted the person of princes, Nor hath known the rich before the poor, For a work of His hands `are' all of them. 20 `In' a moment they die, and at midnight Shake do people, and they pass away, And they remove the mighty without hand.
  • 1 Cor 2:6 : 6 And wisdom we speak among the perfect, and wisdom not of this age, nor of the rulers of this age -- of those becoming useless,
  • Rev 18:17 : 17 `And every shipmaster, and all the company upon the ships, and sailors, and as many as work the sea, far off stood,
  • Ps 37:35-36 : 35 I have seen the wicked terrible, And spreading as a green native plant, 36 And he passeth away, and lo, he is not, And I seek him, and he is not found!
  • Isa 2:11 : 11 The haughty eyes of man have been humbled, And bowed down hath been the loftiness of men, And set on high hath Jehovah alone been in that day.
  • Isa 2:17 : 17 And bowed down hath been the haughtiness of man, And humbled the loftiness of men, And set on high hath Jehovah alone been in that day.
  • Isa 17:13-14 : 13 Nations as the wasting of many waters are wasted, And He hath pushed against it, And it hath fled afar off, And been pursued as chaff of hills before wind, And as a rolling thing before a hurricane. 14 At even-time, lo, terror, before morning it is not, This `is' the portion of our spoilers, And the lot of our plunderers!
  • Isa 37:36 : 36 And a messenger of Jehovah goeth out, and smiteth in the camp of Asshur a hundred and eighty and five thousand; and `men' rise early in the morning, and lo, all of them `are' dead corpses.
  • Isa 41:12 : 12 Thou seekest them, and findest them not, The men who debate with thee, They are as nothing, yea, as nothing, The men who war with thee.
  • Dan 2:34-35 : 34 Thou wast looking till that a stone hath been cut out without hands, and it hath smitten the image on its feet, that `are' of iron and of clay, and it hath broken them small; 35 then broken small together have been the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, and they have been as chaff from the summer threshing-floor, and carried them away hath the wind, and no place hath been found for them: and the stone that smote the image hath become a great mountain, and hath filled all the land.
  • Dan 2:44-45 : 44 `And in the days of these kings raise up doth the God of the heavens a kingdom that is not destroyed -- to the age, and its kingdom to another people is not left: it beateth small and endeth all these kingdoms, and it standeth to the age. 45 Because that thou hast seen that out of the mountain cut hath been a stone without hands, and it hath beaten small the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king that which `is' to be after this; and the dream `is' true, and its interpretation stedfast.
  • Deut 28:63 : 63 `And it hath been, as Jehovah hath rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so doth Jehovah rejoice over you to destroy you, and to lay you waste; and ye have been pulled away from off the ground whither thou art going in to possess it;
  • Ps 32:10 : 10 Many `are' the pains of the wicked; As to him who is trusting in Jehovah, Kindness doth compass him.

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