1 Corinthians 1:26 BSB

1 Corinthians 1:26

Brothers, consider the time of your calling: Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were powerful; not many were of noble birth.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

For behold your calling, brethren, that not many wise after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:

KJV

For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:

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Commentary

1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Ye see your calling - Την κλησιν. The state of grace and blessedness to which ye are invited. I think, βλεπετε την κλησιν, etc., should be read in the imperative: Take heed to, or consider your calling, brethren; that (ὁτι) not many of you are wise after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble: men is not in the original, and Paul seems to allude to the Corinthian believers in particular.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

However, English Version accords well with 1Co 1:24. "The whole history of the expansion of the Church is a progressive victory of the ignorant over the learned, the lowly over the lofty, until the emperor himself laid down his crown before the cross of Christ" [OLSHAUSEN]. wise . . . after the flesh--the wisdom of this world acquired by human study without the Spirit.

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Original language & word study

18 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Βλέπετε	Blepete	Consider	G991 →
γὰρ	gar	for	G1063 →
τὴν	tēn	the	G3588 →
κλῆσιν	klēsin	calling	G2821 →
ὑμῶν,	humōn	of you,	G4771 →
ἀδελφοί,	adelphoi	brothers,	G80 →
ὅτι	hoti	that	G3754 →
οὐ	ou	not	G3756 →
πολλοὶ	polloi	many	G4183 →
σοφοὶ	sophoi	wise	G4680 →
κατὰ	kata	according to	G2596 →
σάρκα,	sarka	flesh [were],	G4561 →
οὐ	ou	not	G3756 →
πολλοὶ	polloi	many	G4183 →
δυνατοί,	dunatoi	powerful,	G1415 →
οὐ	ou	not	G3756 →
πολλοὶ	polloi	many	G4183 →
εὐγενεῖς,	eugeneis	of noble birth,	G2104 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
James 2:5
Listen, my beloved brothers: Has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom He promised those who love Him?
leads to
- Matthew 5:3
  “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
- Luke 6:20
  Looking up at His disciples, Jesus said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.
- Revelation 2:9
  I know your affliction and your poverty—though you are rich! And I am aware of the slander of those who falsely claim to be Jews, but are in fact a synagogue of Satan.
- 1 Corinthians 1:26–28
  Brothers, consider the time of your calling: Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were powerful; not many were of noble birth.
- 2 Corinthians 8:9
  For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.
Through
1 Corinthians 2:8
None of the rulers of this age understood it. For if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
leads to
- Acts 13:27
  The people of Jerusalem and their rulers did not recognize Jesus, yet in condemning Him they fulfilled the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath.
- James 2:1
  My brothers, as you hold out your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ, do not show favoritism.
- Acts 7:2
  And Stephen declared: “Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,