1Corinthians:1

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* Paul , a called apostle of Christ Jesus , through the will of God , and Sosthenes the brother , * to the church of God which is at Corinth , the sanctified in Christ Jesus , called , holy , with all that in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ , their Lord and ours ; * grace be to you , and peace , from God our Father , and the Lord Jesus Christ . * I ever thank my God for you , on account of the grace of God bestowed upon you in Christ Jesus ; * that in him ye were enriched in everything , in all utterance , and all knowledge , * as the testimony of Christ was established among you ; * so that ye come behind in no gift , while waiting for the manifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ ; * who will also make you steadfast to the end , so that ye may be without blame in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ . * God is faithful , by whom ye were called into the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord . * But I beseech you , brethren , by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ , that ye all speak the same thing , and that there be no divisions among you , but that ye be perfectly united in the same mind and in the same judgment . * For I have been informed concerning you , my brethren , by those of the family of Chloe , that there are dissensions among you . * What I mean is this , that each of you saith , I am of Paul ; and I of Apollos ; and I of Cephas ; and I of Christ . * Is Christ divided ? Was Paul crucified for you ? Or were ye baptized the name of Paul ? * I thank God that I baptized none of you , but Crispus and Gaius ; * that no one may say that ye were baptized into my name . * And I baptized also the household of Stephanas ; I am not aware that I baptized any one besides . * For Christ sent me not to baptize , but to preach the gospel ; not with wisdom of speech , lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect . * For the preaching of the cross is to those who are perishing , foolishness , but to us who are being saved , it is the power of God . * For it is written : "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise , and will bring to nought the discernment of the discerning ." * Where is the wise man ? Where the scribe ? Where the disputer of this world ? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of the world ? * For since , in the wisdom of God , the world by its wisdom knew not God , it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save those who believe ; * since even Jews ask for signs , and the Greeks seek for wisdom ; * but we preach Christ crucified , to Jews a stumbling –block , and to gentiles foolishness , * but to those who are called , both Jews and Greeks , Christ the power of God , and the wisdom of God . * Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men ; and the weakness of God is stronger than men . * For consider , brethren , who ye are that have been called ; not many wise men after the fashion of the world , not many mighty , not many noble ; * but the foolish things of the world did God choose , to put to shame the wise ; and the weak things of the world did God choose , to put to shame the things which are strong ; * and the mean things of the world , and the things which are despised , did God choose , the things which are not , to bring to nought things that are ; * that no flesh might glory before God . * But from him it is that ye are in Christ Jesus , who from God was made to us wisdom , and righteousness , and sanctification , and redemption ; * that , according as it is written , "He that glorieth , let him glory in the Lord ."

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