 | Charles Pretlow - 2004 - 450 pagini
...were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth; but God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the...strong, God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in... | |
 | Rolland Hein - 2004 - 142 pagini
...is small, And a blind seed all. ("The Road," Collected Poems, 42) So God works. Paul counseled: "But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the...strong, God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in... | |
 | Edward Adams, David G. Horrell - 2004 - 356 pagini
...were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth; but God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the...strong, God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in... | |
 | Jerome H. Neyrey - 2004 - 344 pagini
...they are devoid of power and pedigree that warrant high ranking on the ladder of stratification. But, God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the...strong, God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are. (1:27-28) i Three times Paul tells us... | |
 | André Lacocque - 2004 - 214 pagini
...course of Ruth here with Boaz's blessing in Ruth 2:12 and with the response of 43 Paul writes that "God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the...chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong" (1 Cor 1:27). The Yalkut Shimeoni (a midrashic anthology attributed to Rabbi Shimeon ha-Darshan, thirteenth... | |
 | Frederick Buechner - 2004 - 452 pagini
...initial willingness to rise to their feet when Jesus said, "Follow me." As Saint Paul put it later, "God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the...chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong" (i Corinthians 1:27). When Jesus sent the twelve out into the world, his instructions were simple.... | |
 | Douglas J. Schuurman - 2004 - 210 pagini
...by worldly standards, were wise or powerful when God called them. He discerns a divine pattern: "But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the...chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong ... so that no one might boast in the presence of God" (i Cor. i:26-29). Paul acknowledges that all... | |
 | 2003 - 640 pagini
...powerful, the book of Judith invites us to use the logic of God, of which St Paul has this to say: "God chose what is weak in the world to shame the...strong, God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in... | |
 | Fleming Rutledge - 2004 - 386 pagini
...were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth; but God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, God chose what is weak in the woeld to shame the strong, (i Corinthians i:26-27, emphasis added) This is paralleled by the words... | |
 | Richard A. Horsley - 2004 - 217 pagini
...many of you were wise by human standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. 27 But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak [to asthene] in the world to shame the strong [to ischyra]; 28 God chose what is low and despised in... | |
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God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong, God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might... 
