1 Corinthians 1:23-28
23we go right on proclaiming Christ, the Crucified. Jews treat this like an anti-miracle--and Greeks pass it off as absurd.n
24But to us who are personally called by God himself--both Jews and Greeks--Christ is God''s ultimate miracle and wisdom all wrapped up in one.o
25Human wisdom is so tinny, so impotent, next to the seeming absurdity of God. Human strength can''t begin to compete with God''s "weakness."p
26Take a good look, friends, at who you were when you got called into this life. I don''t see many of "the brightest and the best" among you, not many influential, not many from high-society families.q
27Isn''t it obvious that God deliberately chose men and women that the culture overlooks and exploits and abuses,r
28chose these "nobodies" to expose the hollow pretensions of the "somebodies"?s