| 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. |
