1 Corinthians 1:28 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁸And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:

1 Corinthians 1:28 —

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Cross-References

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Job 34:24
He shall break in pieces mighty men without number, and set others in their stead.
Romans 4:17
(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.
Isaiah 2:11
The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
Job 34:19-20
How much less to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands. …
Isaiah 2:17
And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.

Topics

Agency Boasting Chosen, or Elected Contingencies Decrees, Divine Election Fasting Foreordination

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 17-31)

We have here, I. The manner in which Paul preached the gospel, and the cross of Christ: Not with the wisdom of words (1 Cor. 1:17), the enticing words of man’s wisdom (1 Cor. 2:4), the flourish of oratory, or the accuracies of philosophical language, upon which the Greeks so much prided themselves, and which seem to have been the peculiar recommendations of some of the heads of the faction in this…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 28)

28. yea, and things which are not--Yea is not in the Greek. Also some of the oldest manuscripts omit “and.” Thus the clause, “things which are not” (are regarded as naught), is in apposition with “foolish ... weak ... base (that is, lowborn) and despised things.” God has chosen all four, though regarded as things that are not, to bring to naught things that are.