1 Corinthians 1:26-28

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²⁶ For see your vocation, brethren, that there are not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble:

²⁷ But the foolish things of the world hath God chosen, that he may confound the wise; and the weak things of the world hath God chosen, that he may confound the strong.

²⁸ And the base things of the world, and the things that are contemptible, hath God chosen, and things that are not, that he might bring to nought things that are: