| 1 | ¶ Paul, {a} called apostle of Jesus Christ, by God?s will, and Sosthenes the brother, | |
| 2 map | to the assembly of God which is in Corinth, to {those} sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all that in every place call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both theirs and ours: | |
| 3 | Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and {the} Lord Jesus Christ. | |
| 4 | I thank my God always about you, in respect of the grace of God given to you in Christ Jesus; | |
| 5 | that in everything ye have been enriched in him, in all word {of doctrine}, and all knowledge, | |
| 6 | (according as the testimony of the Christ has been confirmed in you,) | |
| 7 | so that ye come short in no gift, awaiting the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ; | |
| 8 | who shall also confirm you to {the} end, unimpeachable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. | |
| 9 | God {is} faithful, by whom ye have been called into {the} fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord. | |
| 10 | ¶ Now I exhort you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all say the same thing, and that there be not among you divisions; but that ye be perfectly united in the same mind and in the same opinion. | |
| 11 | For it has been shewn to me concerning you, my brethren, by those of {the house of} Chloe, that there are strifes among you. | |
| 12 | But I speak of this, that each of you says, *I* am of Paul, and *I* of Apollos, and *I* of Cephas, and *I* of Christ. | |
| 13 | Is the Christ divided? has Paul been crucified for you? or have ye been baptised unto the name of Paul? | |
| 14 | ¶ I thank God that I have baptised none of you, unless Crispus and Gaius, | |
| 15 | that no one may say that I have baptised unto my own name. | |
| 16 | Yes, I baptised also the house of Stephanas; for the rest I know not if I have baptised any other. | |
| 17 | ¶ For Christ has not sent me to baptise, but to preach glad tidings; not in wisdom of word, that the cross of the Christ may not be made vain. | |
| 18 | For the word of the cross is to them that perish foolishness, but to us that are saved it is God?s power. | |
| 19 | For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and set aside the understanding of the understanding ones. | |
| 20 | Where {is the} wise? where scribe? where disputer of this world? has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? | |
| 21 | For since, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom has not known God, God has been pleased by the foolishness of the preaching to save those that believe. | |
| 22 | Since Jews indeed ask for signs, and Greeks seek wisdom; | |
| 23 | but *we* preach Christ crucified, to Jews an offence, and to nations foolishness; | |
| 24 | but to those that {are} called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ God?s power and God?s wisdom. | |
| 25 | Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. | |
| 26 | For consider your calling, brethren, that {there are} not many wise according to flesh, not many powerful, not many high-born. | |
| 27 | But God has chosen the foolish things of the world, that he may put to shame the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world, that he may put to shame the strong things; | |
| 28 | and the ignoble things of the world, and the despised, has God chosen, {and} things that are not, that he may annul the things that are; | |
| 29 | so that no flesh should boast before God. | |
| 30 | But of him are *ye* in Christ Jesus, who has been made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness, and holiness, and redemption; | |
| 31 | that according as it is written, He that boasts, let him boast in {the} Lord. | |