| 1 Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the
will of God, and Sosthenes our brother, 2 unto the church of God which is
at Corinth, even them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called
to be saints, with all that call upon the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ in every place, their Lord and ours: 3 Grace to you and
peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 4 I thank my God
always concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ
Jesus; 5 that in everything ye were enriched in him, in all utterance and
all knowledge; 6 even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:
7 so that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the revelation of our
Lord Jesus Christ; 8 who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye
be unreproveable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 God is
faithful, through whom ye were called into the fellowship of his Son Jesus
Christ our Lord. 10 Now I beseech you, brethren, through the name of our
Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing and that there be
no divisions among you; but that ye be perfected together in the same
mind and in the same judgment. 11 For it hath been signified unto me
concerning you, my brethren, by them that are of the household of
Chloe, that there are contentions among you. 12 Now this I mean, that each
one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos: and I of Cephas; and I of
Christ. 13 Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye
baptized into the name of Paul? 14 I thank God that I baptized none of
you, save Crispus and Gaius; 15 lest any man should say that ye were
baptized into my name. 16 And I baptized also the household of Stephanas:
besides, I know not whether I baptized any other. 17 For Christ sent me
not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not in wisdom of words, lest the
cross of Christ should be made void. 18 For the word of the cross is to
them that perish foolishness; but unto us who are saved it is the power of
God. 19 For it is written,
I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
And the discernment of the discerning will I bring to nought.
20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this
world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21 For seeing
that in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom knew not God, it was
God's good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save them
that believe. 22 Seeing that Jews ask for signs, and Greeks seek after
wisdom: 23 but we preach Christ crucified, unto Jews a stumblingblock, and
unto Gentiles foolishness; 24 but unto them that are called, both Jews and
Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. 25 Because the
foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger
than men. 26 For behold your calling, brethren, that not many wise after
the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: 27 but God
chose the foolish things of the world, that he might put to shame them that
are wise; and God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to
shame the things that are strong; 28 and the base things of the world, and
the things that are despised, did God choose, yea and the things that
are not, that he might bring to nought the things that are: 29 that no
flesh should glory before God. 30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who
was made unto us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and
redemption: 31 that, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him
glory in the Lord.
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