## 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: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]])