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New Testament Reading - God uses what is weak

²⁶Notice among yourselves, dear brothers, that few of you who follow Christ have big names or power or wealth. ²⁷Instead, God has deliberately chosen to use ideas the world considers foolish and of little worth in order to shame those people considered by the world as wise and great. ²⁸He has chosen a plan despised by the world, counted as nothing at all, and used it to bring down to nothing those the world considers great, ²⁹so that no one anywhere can ever brag in the presence of God.

³⁰For it is from God alone that you have your life through Christ Jesus. He showed us God’s plan of salvation; he was the one who made us acceptable to God; he made us pure and holy^a and gave himself to purchase our salvation. ³¹As it says in the Scriptures, “If anyone is going to boast, let him boast only of what the Lord has done.”

1. he made us pure and holy, or “he brought us near to God.” to purchase our salvation, or “to free us from slavery to sin.”