Parallel Bible results for "1 corinthians 1:28"

1 Corinthians 1:28

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28 chose these "nobodies" to expose the hollow pretensions of the "somebodies"?
28 God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are,
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