1 Paul, called
2 to the church of God that is in Corinth, sanctified in Christ Jesus, called
3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
4 I give thanks to my God always concerning you, because of the grace of God which was given to you in Christ Jesus,
5 that
6 just as the testimony about Christ has been confirmed in you,
7 so that you do not lack in any spiritual gift
8 who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9 God
10 Now I exhort you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all say the same
11 For it has been made clear to me concerning you, my brothers, by
12 But I say this, that each of you is saying, “I am with Paul,” and “I
13 Has Christ been divided? Paul was not crucified for you, was he?
14 I give thanks to God that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius,
15 lest anyone should say that you were baptized in my name.
16 (Now I also baptized the household of Stephanus. Beyond that I do not know if I baptized anyone else.)
17 For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to proclaim the gospel, not with
18 For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
19 For it is written,
20 Where
21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom did not know God, God was pleased through the foolishness of preaching to save those who believe.
22 For indeed, Jews ask for sign miracles and Greeks seek wisdom,
23 but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a cause for stumbling, but to the Gentiles foolishness,
24 but to those
25 For the foolishness of God is wiser than human
26 For consider your calling, brothers, that not many
27 But the foolish
28 and the insignificant of the world, and the despised, God chose, the things that are not, in order that he might abolish the things that are,
29 so that all flesh may not boast before God.
30 But from him you are in Christ Jesus, who became wisdom to us from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,
31 so that, just as it is written, “The one who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.”