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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes, |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be his holy people, together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ--their Lord and ours: |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4I always thank my God for you because of his grace given you in Christ Jesus. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5For in him you have been enriched in every way--with all kinds of speech and with all knowledge-- |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6God thus confirming our testimony about Christ among you. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Therefore you do not lack any spiritual gift as you eagerly wait for our Lord Jesus Christ to be revealed. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8He will also keep you firm to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9God is faithful, who has called you into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another in what you say and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly united in mind and thought. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11My brothers and sisters, some from Chloe's household have informed me that there are quarrels among you. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12What I mean is this: One of you says, "I follow Paul"; another, "I follow Apollos"; another, "I follow Cephas"; still another, "I follow Christ." |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Were you baptized in the name of Paul? |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14I thank God that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius, |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15so no one can say that you were baptized in my name. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16(Yes, I also baptized the household of Stephanas; beyond that, I don't remember if I baptized anyone else.) |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel--not with wisdom and eloquence, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19For it is written: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate." |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Where is the wise person? Where is the teacher of the law? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Jews demand signs and Greeks look for wisdom, |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things--and the things that are not--to nullify the things that are, |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29so that no one may boast before him. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God--that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31Therefore, as it is written: "Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord." |
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