Paul, a called a apostle of Christ Jesus b by God’s will, and Sosthenes the brother,
to the assembly of God that is in Corinth, c [persons] sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all that call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, theirs and ours;
grace to you and peace from God our Father, and [the] Lord Jesus Christ.
I thank my God always concerning you for the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus;
that in everything ye were enriched in him, in all discourse and all knowledge,
according as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you;
so that ye come not short in any gift, awaiting the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ
who shall also confirm you until [the] end, unimpeachable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
God [is] faithful by whom ye were called into [the] fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all say the same thing, and [that] there be no divisions among you, but [that] ye be made perfect in the same mind and in the same judgment.
For it hath been shown to me concerning you, my brethren, by those [of the house] of Chloe, that there are strifes among you.
But I say this, that each of you saith, I am of Paul, and I of Apollos, and I of Cephas, and I of Christ.
Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you, or were ye baptized unto the name of Paul?
I thank God that I baptized none of you but Crispus and Gaius,
that no one should say that ye were baptized unto my name.
And I baptized also the household of Stephanas; further I know not whether I baptized any other.
For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel; not in wisdom of word, lest the cross of Christ should be made vain.
For the word of the cross is to those that perish foolishness, but to us that are to be saved it is God’s power.
For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and put away the understanding of the understanding ones.
Where [is the] wise? where scribe? where disputer of this age? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom knew not God, God was pleased through the foolishness of the preaching to save those that believe;
since both Jews ask for signs and Greeks seek wisdom;
but we preach Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling-block, and to Gentiles foolishness,
but to those that [are] called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ God’s power and God’s wisdom;
because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
For look at your calling, brethren, that not many [are] wise according to flesh, not many powerful, not many high-born.
But the foolish things of the world God chose that he might put to shame the wise; and the weak things of the world God chose that he might put to shame the strong things;
and the low-born things of the world and those despised God chose, [and] the things that are not, that he might bring to nought the things that are,
so that no flesh should boast before God.
But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who was made wisdom to us from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption;
that, according as it is written, He that boasteth, let him boast in [the] Lord.