Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians, Chapter 1
{1:1} Paul, called to be an emissary of Yeshua the Messiah 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 Messiah Yeshua,
called to be holy ones, with all who call on the name of our Lord
Yeshua the Messiah in every place, both theirs and ours: {1:3} Grace
to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Yeshua the Messiah.
{1:4} I always thank my God concerning you, for the grace of God
which was given you in Messiah Yeshua; {1:5} that in everything you
were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge; {1:6} even as
the testimony of Messiah was confirmed in you: {1:7} so that you come
behind in no gift; waiting for the revelation of our Lord Yeshua the
Messiah; {1:8} who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in
the day of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah. {1:9} God is faithful, through
whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Yeshua the
Messiah, our Lord. {1:10} Now I beg you, [1>]brothers,[<1] through the
name of our Lord, Yeshua the Messiah, 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 [2>]Kefa[<2]," and, "I follow Messiah."
{1:13} Is Messiah divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you
immersed into the name of Paul? {1:14} I thank God that I immersed
none of you, except Crispus and Gaius, {1:15} so that no one should
say that I had immersed you into my own name. {1:16} (I also immersed
the household of Stephanas; besides them, I don't know whether I
immersed any other.) {1:17} For Messiah sent me not to immerse, but to
proclaim the Good News--not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of
Messiah 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."[3]
{1:20} Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the Torah
scholar 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 proclaiming to save those who believe. {1:22} For
Jews ask for signs, Greeks seek after wisdom, {1:23} but we proclaim
Messiah crucified; a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to
Greeks, {1:24} but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks,
Messiah 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 Messiah Yeshua, 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."[4]
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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] {1:12} Greek: Cephas
[3] {1:19} Isaiah 29:14
[4] {1:31} Jeremiah 9:24
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