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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: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism)