1 Corinthians 1:26

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world that he might put to shame the things that are strong.

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”

the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.

Lift up your heads, you gates! Be lifted up, you everlasting doors, and the King of glory will come in.

For he satisfies the longing soul. He fills the hungry soul with good.

The humble also will increase their joy in Yahweh, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”

Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.” Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.

The first book I wrote, Theophilus, concerned all that Jesus began both to do and to teach,

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,

He doesn’t respect the persons of princes, nor respect the rich more than the poor; for they all are the work of his hands.

What will they answer the messengers of the nation? That Yahweh has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people will take refuge.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

He lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and said, “Blessed are you who are poor, God’s Kingdom is yours.

He said, “Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,

But he said, “I am not crazy, most excellent Festus, but boldly declare words of truth and reasonableness.

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Good News—not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ wouldn’t be made void.

Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who are dying,

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality.

Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.

Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”

Don’t be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

They took hold of him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is, which you are speaking about?

If therefore Demetrius and the craftsmen who are with him have a matter against anyone, the courts are open, and there are proconsuls. Let them press charges against one another.

“Claudius Lysias to the most excellent governor Felix: Greetings.

Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Hasn’t God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.

My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

“So let all your enemies perish, Yahweh, but let those who love him be as the sun when it rises in its strength.” Then the land had rest forty years.

Joab sent to Tekoa, and brought a wise woman from there, and said to her, “Please act like a mourner, and put on mourning clothing, please, and don’t anoint yourself with oil, but be as a woman who has mourned a long time for the dead.

He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.

The Almighty will be your treasure, and precious silver to you.

Therefore men revere him. He doesn’t regard any who are wise of heart.”

“Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.

For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.

Yahweh says, “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build to me? Where will I rest?

Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.

Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.

But Peter said, “I have no silver or gold, but what I have, that I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk!”

But Peter began, and explained to them in order, saying,

But the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent women and the chief men of the city, and stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and threw them out of their borders.

Some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and not a few of the chief women.

But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat,

we accept it in all ways and in all places, most excellent Felix, with all thankfulness.

For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn’t know God, it was God’s good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

All the saints greet you.

to whom we gave no place in the way of subjection, not for an hour, that the truth of the Good News might continue with you.

having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will,

who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.

For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,

Therefore I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed.

My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

Now I beg you, dear lady, not as though I wrote to you a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.

“I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.

He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

There he makes the hungry live, that they may prepare a city to live in,

He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.

The heart of the discerning gets knowledge. The ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

All this I have proved in wisdom. I said, “I will be wise;” but it was far from me.

The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trodden under foot.

Your heart will meditate on the terror. Where is he who counted? Where is he who weighed? Where is he who counted the towers?

who frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; who turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish;

You shall tread down the wicked; for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make,” says Yahweh of Armies.

Jesus said to his disciples, “Most certainly I say to you, a rich man will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven with difficulty.

Jesus looked around, and said to his disciples, “How difficult it is for those who have riches to enter into God’s Kingdom!”

Jesus, seeing that he became very sad, said, “How hard it is for those who have riches to enter into God’s Kingdom!

He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn’t recognize him.

Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?

“Now, brothers, I know that you did this in ignorance, as did also your rulers.

But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith.

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him,

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

Next to them, the Tekoites made repairs; but their nobles didn’t put their necks to the Lord’s work.

The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor and the steps of the needy.”

But I will leave among you an afflicted and poor people, and they will take refuge in Yahweh’s name.

it seemed good to me also, having traced the course of all things accurately from the first, to write to you in order, most excellent Theophilus;

He has filled the hungry with good things. He has sent the rich away empty.

In that same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, “I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.”

who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of understanding. This man summoned Barnabas and Saul, and sought to hear the word of God.

Then the proconsul, when he saw what was done, believed, being astonished at the teaching of the Lord.

Many of them therefore believed; also of the prominent Greek women, and not a few men.

But certain men joined with him and believed, among whom also was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn’t have crucified the Lord of glory.

We also speak these things, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

All the saints greet you, especially those who are of Caesar’s household.

The elder, to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not I only, but also all those who know the truth,