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[1]PAUL, called and sent by Jesus Messiah in the good pleasure of God; and Sosthenes, a brother;
[2]to the church of God which is at Corinth, to the [people] called and sanctified, who are sanctified in Jesus Messiah; and to all them, in every place, who invoke the name of our Lord Jesus Messiah, their and our [Lord]:
[3]Grace [be] with you, and peace; from God our Father, and from our Lord Jesus Messiah.
[4]I thank my God at all times on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given to you in Jesus Messiah;
[5]that in every thing ye are enriched by him, in all discourse, and in all knowledge;
[6]even as the testimony of Messiah was confirmed among you:
[7]so that ye are not inferior in any one of his gifts; but are waiting for the manifestation of our Lord Jesus Messiah:
[8]who will confirm you unto the end, so that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Messiah.
[9]God is faithful; by whom ye have been called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Messiah, our Lord.
[10]And I beseech you, my Brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Messiah, that to you all there may be one language; and that there may be no divisions among you: but that ye may become perfectly of one mind, and of one way of thinking.
[11]For concerning you, my Brethren, it hath been reported to me by the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.
[12]And this I state: That one of you saith, I am of Paul; and another saith, I am of Apollos; and another saith, I am of Cephas; and another saith, I am of Messiah.
[13]Now was Messiah divided? Or was Paul crucified for you? Or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?
[14]I thank my God that I baptized none of you, except Crispus and Gaius;
[15]lest any one should say, that I baptized in my own name.
[16]I moreover baptized the household of Stephanas: but further, I know not that I baptized any other.
[17]For Messiah did not send me to baptize, but to preach; not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Messiah should be inefficient.
[18]For a discourse concerning the cross is, to them who perish, foolishness; but to us who live, it is the energy of God.
[19]For it is written: I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; and I will dissipate the intelligence of the sagacious.
[20]Where is the wise? Or where is the scribe? Or where is the disputant of this world? Lo, hath not God showed, that the wisdom of this world is folly?
[21]For in the wisdom of God, because the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God, by the foolishness of preaching, to quicken them who believe.
[22]Because the Jews ask for signs, and the Gentiles demand wisdom.
[23]But we preach Messiah as crucified; [which is] a stumbling-block to the Jews, and foolishness to the Gentiles;
[24]but to them who are called, both Jews and Gentiles, Messiah is the energy of God, and the wisdom of God.
[25]Because the foolishness of God, is wiser than men; and the feebleness of God, is stronger than men.
[26]For look also at your calling, my Brethren; that not many among you are wise, according to the flesh; and not many among you are mighty, and not many among you are of high birth.
[27]But God hath chosen the foolish ones of the world, to shame the wise; and he hath chosen the feeble ones of the world, to shame the mighty;
[28]and he hath chosen those of humble birth in the world, and the despised, and them who are nothing, to bring to naught them who are something:
[29]so that no flesh might, glory before him.
[30]And ye, moreover, are of him in Jesus Messiah; who hath become to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption :
[31]according to that which is written: He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
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