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- God's call on you - "how God called you to be saints".
- not many of you - "Only a very few of you"
- human standards - "people's judgment" or "people's ideas of what is good"
- of noble birth - "special because your family is important" or "royal"
- God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise - God chose to use humble people that Jewish leaders believed to be unimportant to confirm that these leaders were not more important than others to God.
- God chose what is weak in the world to shame what is strong. - Repeating the previous sentence's idea in other words. (See: en:ta:vol2:translate:figs_parallelism)