1FROM Paul, apostle of Christ Jesus by God's call and by his will, together with our colleague Sosthenes,
2to God's church at Corinth, dedicated to him in Christ Jesus, called to be his people, along with all who invoke the name of our Lord Jesus Christ wherever they may be -- their Lord as well as ours.
3Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
4I am always thanking God for you. I thank him for his grace given to you in Christ Jesus;
5I thank him for all the enrichment that has come to you in Christ. You possess full knowledge and you can give full expression to it,
6because what we testified about Christ has been confirmed in your experience.
7There is indeed no single gift you lack, while you wait expectantly for our Lord Jesus Christ to reveal himself.
8He will keep you firm to the end, without reproach on the day of our Lord Jesus.
9It is God himself who called you to share in the life of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord; and God keeps faith.
True and false wisdom
10I APPEAL to you, my friends, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ: agree among yourselves, and avoid divisions; let there be complete unity of mind and thought.
11My friends, it has been brought to my notice by Chloe's people that there are quarrels among you.
12What I mean is this: each of you is saying, “I am for Paul,” or “I am for Apollos”; “I am for Cephas,” or “I am for Christ.”
13Surely Christ has not been divided! Was it Paul who was crucified for you? Was it in Paul's name that you were baptized?
14Thank God, I never baptized any of you, except Crispus and Gaius;
15no one can say you were baptized in my name.
16I did of course baptize the household of Stephanas; I cannot think of anyone else.
17Christ did not send me to baptize, but to proclaim the gospel; and to do it without recourse to the skills of rhetoric, lest the cross of Christ be robbed of its effect.
18The message of the cross is sheer folly to those on the way to destruction, but to us, who are on the way to salvation, it is the power of God.
19Scripture says, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and bring to nothing the cleverness of the clever.”
20Where is your wise man now, your man of learning, your subtle debater of this present age? God has made the wisdom of this world look foolish!
21As God in his wisdom ordained, the world failed to find him by its wisdom, and he chose by the folly of the gospel to save those who have faith.
22Jews demand signs, Greeks look for wisdom,
23but we proclaim Christ nailed to the cross; and though this is an offence to Jews and folly to Gentiles,
24yet to those who are called, Jews and Greeks alike, he is the power of God and the wisdom of God.
25The folly of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God stronger than human strength.
26My friends, think what sort of people you are, whom God has called. Few of you are wise by any human standard, few powerful or of noble birth.
27Yet, to shame the wise, God has chosen what the world counts folly, and to shame what is strong, God has chosen what the world counts weakness.
28He has chosen things without rank or standing in the world, mere nothings, to overthrow the existing order.
29So no place is left for any human pride in the presence of God.
30By God's act you are in Christ Jesus; God has made him our wisdom, and in him we have our righteousness, our holiness, our liberation.
31Therefore, in the words of scripture, “If anyone must boast, let him boast of the Lord.”
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