Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians, Chapter 1
{1:1} Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will
of God, and our brother Sosthenes, {1:2} to the assembly of God which
is at Corinth; those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be
saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in
every place, both theirs and ours: {1:3} Grace to you and peace from
God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
{1:4} I always thank my God concerning you, for the grace of God
which was given you in Christ Jesus; {1:5} that in everything you were
enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge; {1:6} even as the
testimony of Christ was confirmed in you: {1:7} so that you come
behind in no gift; waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus
Christ; {1:8} who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in
the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. {1:9} God is faithful, through whom
you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our
Lord. {1:10} Now I beg you, [1>]brothers,[<1] through the name of our
Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing and that there
be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the
same mind and in the same judgment. {1:11} For it has been reported to
me concerning you, my brothers, by those who are from Chloe's
household, that there are contentions among you. {1:12} Now I mean
this, that each one of you says, "I follow Paul," "I follow Apollos,"
"I follow Cephas," and, "I follow Christ." {1:13} Is Christ divided?
Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized into the name of
Paul? {1:14} I thank God that I baptized none of you, except Crispus
and Gaius, {1:15} so that no one should say that I had baptized you
into my own name. {1:16} (I also baptized the household of Stephanas;
besides them, I don't know whether I baptized any other.) {1:17} For
Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Good News--not in
wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ wouldn't be made void.
{1:18} For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are
dying, but to us who are saved it is the power of God. {1:19} For it
is written,
"I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing."[2]
{1:20} Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer
of this world? Hasn't God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
{1:21} For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its
wisdom didn't know God, it was God's good pleasure through the
foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe. {1:22} For
Jews ask for signs, Greeks seek after wisdom, {1:23} but we preach
Christ crucified; a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to
Greeks, {1:24} but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks,
Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God. {1:25} Because the
foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is
stronger than men. {1:26} For you see your calling, brothers, that not
many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many
noble; {1:27} but God chose the foolish things of the world that he
might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of
the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong;
{1:28} and God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things
that are despised, and the things that are not, that he might bring to
nothing the things that are: {1:29} that no flesh should boast before
God. {1:30} But of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us
wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:
{1:31} that, according as it is written, "He who boasts, let him boast
in the Lord."[3]
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Footnotes:
[1] {1:10} The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may
also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."
[2] {1:19} Isaiah 29:14
[3] {1:31} Jeremiah 9:24
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