Paul's LettersNew Testament
Chapter 1· Book VII of 27
1Verse 1. Open verse actions.Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes, 2Verse 2. Open verse actions.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: 3Verse 3. Open verse actions.Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 4Verse 4. Open verse actions.I always thank my God concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus; 5Verse 5. Open verse actions.that in everything you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge; 6Verse 6. Open verse actions.even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you: 7Verse 7. Open verse actions.so that you come behind in no gift; waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ; 8Verse 8. Open verse actions.who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9Verse 9. Open verse actions.God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord. 10Verse 10. Open verse actions.Now I beg you, brothers, 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. 11Verse 11. Open verse actions.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. 12Verse 12. Open verse actions.Now I mean this, that each one of you says, “I follow Paul,” “I follow Apollos,” “I follow Cephas,” and, “I follow Christ.” 13Verse 13. Open verse actions.Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized into the name of Paul? 14Verse 14. Open verse actions.I thank God that I baptized none of you, except Crispus and Gaius, 15Verse 15. Open verse actions.so that no one should say that I had baptized you into my own name. 16Verse 16. Open verse actions.(I also baptized the household of Stephanas; besides them, I don’t know whether I baptized any other.) 17Verse 17. Open verse actions.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. 18Verse 18. Open verse actions.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. 19Verse 19. Open verse actions.For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing.” 20Verse 20. Open verse actions.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? 21Verse 21. Open verse actions.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. 22Verse 22. Open verse actions.For Jews ask for signs, Greeks seek after wisdom, 23Verse 23. Open verse actions.but we preach Christ crucified; a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks, 24Verse 24. Open verse actions.but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25Verse 25. Open verse actions.Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. 26Verse 26. Open verse actions.For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble; 27Verse 27. Open verse actions.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; 28Verse 28. Open verse actions.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: 29Verse 29. Open verse actions.that no flesh should boast before God. 30Verse 30. Open verse actions.Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption: 31Verse 31. Open verse actions.that, according as it is written, “He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.”