1 Corinthians 1:26 Among Ekklesia (believers) not many rich or educated or well to do.....
PHILLIPS
For look at your own calling as Christians, my brothers. You don’t see among you many of the wise (according to this world’s judgment) nor many of the ruling class, nor many from the noblest families. But God has chosen what the world calls foolish to shame the wise; he has chosen what the world calls weak to shame the strong. He has chosen things of little strength and small repute, yes and even things which have no real existence to explode the pretensions of the things that are—that no man may boast in the presence of God. Yet from this same God you have received your standing in Jesus Christ, and he has become for us the true wisdom, a matter, in practice, of being made righteous and holy, in fact, of being redeemed. And this makes us see the truth of scripture: ‘He who glories, let him glory in the Lord.
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CJB
Just look at yourselves, brothers — look at those whom God has called!
Not many of you are wise by the world’s standards, not many wield power or boast noble birth.
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TLB
Notice among yourselves, dear brothers, that
few of you who follow Christ have big names or power or wealth.
