1 Corinthians 1:28-29

Christ the Wisdom and Power of God

²⁸ God chose what is low and despised in the world, even _p things that are not, to _q bring to nothing things that are, ²⁹ so _r that no human being ₁ might boast in the presence of God.

1. Cross References
   Romans 4:17
   As it is written, "I have made you the father of many nations" - in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.
   
2. Cross References
   1 Corinthians 2:6
   Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away.
   Job 34:19
   Who shows no partiality to princes, nor regards the rich more than the poor, for they are all the work of his hands?
   Job 34:24
   He shatters the mighty without investigation and sets others in their place.
   
3. Cross References
   Ephesians 2:9
   Not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
   Judges 7:2
   The Lord said to Gideon, "The people with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel boast over me, saying, 'My own hand has saved me.