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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Parallel translations
4 additional translationsFor behold your calling, brethren, that not many wise after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
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.
for see your calling, brethren, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble;
For consider your calling, brethren, that [there are] not many wise according to flesh, not many powerful, not many high-born.
About this book
New Testament▾
About this book
New Testament1 Corinthians — A pastoral letter answering a long list of questions and problems — unity, ethics, worship, and the resurrection — written to a gifted but divided church.
- Author
- Paul, with Sosthenes (1:1)
- Date
- c. AD 55, from Ephesus