26 For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise ^oaccording to worldly standards,¹ not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. 27 But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; 28 God chose ^pwhat is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, 29 ^qso that no human being² might boast in the presence of God.