| Joseph John Reilly - 1925 - عدد الصفحات: 352
...after twenty years and use to notorious purpose: "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 mighty !' May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen,... | |
| 1854 - عدد الصفحات: 1184
...wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble." God made use of the " foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the things that are mighty ; and base things of the world, and things which are despised."... | |
| B. A. Ramsbottom - 1994 - عدد الصفحات: 364
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 417
...men; and the weakness of God is 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 - عدد الصفحات: 460
...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... | |
| Richard Owen Roberts - 2002 - عدد الصفحات: 372
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 68
...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 Henry Newman, Saint John Henry Newman - 2003 - عدد الصفحات: 212
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 272
...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'... | |
| James D. Bratt - 2005 - عدد الصفحات: 320
...accomplish his purposes by such instruments as he chooses; that he hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the things that are mighty; and base things, &c., hath God chosen, that no flesh should glory... | |
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