 | B. A. Ramsbottom - 1994 - 348 Seiten
...times afterwards. Thus, the Lord's ways are past finding out. He chooses "the foolish things of this world, to confound the wise; and 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... | |
 | Jim Garrison - 2000 - 359 Seiten
...stronger than men" (1 Cor. 1:21,25). Because of this, God deliberately "has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise.. .and the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty" (1 Cor. 1:27). It is this supreme paradox of the transformation... | |
 | Mildred Walker - 2000 - 275 Seiten
...the glory of our success must be ascribed to God alone, who makes use of the foolish things of this world to confound the wise and the weak things of the world to bring to naught those who are mighty. The poor rail-splitter, who in these four years of severe schooling... | |
 | Seamus Deane, Angela Bourke, Andrew Carpenter, Jonathan Williams - 2002 - 3201 Seiten
...send forth labourers into His harvest'; and remember, that, 'God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the mighty; that no flesh should glory in His presence, but that he who glories should glory in the Lord?' Biographies... | |
 | Richard Owen Roberts - 2002 - 368 Seiten
...demonstrated to them that God made foolish the wisdom of the world by choosing the foolish things of the world to confound the wise and the weak things of the world to shame the things that are strong (chapters 1-2). They were lax in allowing an immorality among themselves... | |
 | Edward Samuel - 2002 - 61 Seiten
...times afterwards. Thus, the Lord's ways are past finding out. He chooses "the foolish things of this world, to confound the wise; and 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... | |
 | John Lacy - 2003 - 521 Seiten
...not God (in his wisdom), it pleased him (and who shall instruct him?) to choose the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the mighty, and base things of the world, and things the most despised, and things which are not, to bring to nought... | |
 | John Henry Newman - 2003 - 195 Seiten
...us in trouble, and guide us on our dangerous way. May He, as of old, choose "the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the things which are might"! May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen,... | |
 | Beverly Lanzetta - 262 Seiten
...lowest is the highest. "Taking literally the biblical promise that God chooses 'the foolish things of the world to confound the wise' and 'the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty' and 'things which are not, to bring to naught things that are'... | |
 | Sydney Frank Paul - 2006 - 206 Seiten
...day forward". This is the Lord's way to hide pride from man. He "hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise", and the "weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty ... that no flesh should glory in His presence" (1 Cor. 1. 27-29).... | |
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God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty... 
