26 Look at your situation when you were called, brothers and sisters! By ordinary human standards not many were wise, not many were powerful, not many were from the upper class.
27 But God chose what the world considers foolish to shame the wise. God chose what the world considers weak to shame the strong.
28 And God chose what the world considers low-class and low-life—what is considered to be nothing—to reduce what is considered to be something to nothing.
29 So no human being can brag in God’s presence.
30 It is because of God that you are in Christ Jesus. He became wisdom from God for us. This means that he made us righteous and holy, and he delivered us.
31 This is consistent with what was written: The one who brags should brag in the Lord!