1 Corinthians Paul, a called Apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, and Sosthenes, the brother,

Living_Oracles⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Paul, a called Apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, and Sosthenes, the brother, ² to the congregation of God which is in Corinth, sanctified by Christ Jesus, called saints; with all, in every place, who invoke the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours: ³ favor and peace be with you from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. ⁴ I give thanks to my God always in respect of you; on account of the favor of God, which was given to you through Jesus Christ; ⁵ that you were enriched with every gift, by him; even with all speech, and all knowledge, ⁶ just as the testimony of Christ was confirmed among you: ⁷ so that you come behind in no gift, waiting for the full manifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ; ⁸ who will confirm you till the end, without accusation in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹ God is faithful, by whom you have been called into the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord. ¹⁰ Now, brethren, I beseech you by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no schisms among you; but that you be perfectly united in the same mind, and in the same judgment. ¹¹ For it has been declared to me concerning you, my brethren, by some of the family of Chloe, that there are contentions among you. ¹² And I mention this, that each of you says, I, indeed, am of Paul, and I of Apollos, and I of Cephas, and I of Christ. ¹³ Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? or were you immersed into the name of Paul? ¹⁴ I give thanks to God that I immersed none of you except Crispus and Gaius; ¹⁵ lest any one should say that I immersed into my own name. ¹⁶ And I immersed also the family of Stephanus: besides, I know not whether I immersed any other. ¹⁷ For Christ did not send me to immerse, but to proclaim the glad tidings; not, however, with wisdom of speech, that the cross of Christ might not be deprived of its efficacy. ¹⁸ For this doctrine (the doctrine of the cross) is, indeed, foolishness to the destroyed; but to us, who are saved, it is the power of God. ¹⁹ Therefore, it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will set aside the knowledge of the prudent." ²⁰ Where is the wise man? where the scribe? where the disputers of this world? Has not God shown the wisdom of this world to be folly? ²¹ For, when, in the wisdom of God, the world, through wisdom, knew not God, it pleased God, through the foolishness of this proclamation, to save them who believe. ²² And though the Jews demand a sign, and the Greeks seek wisdom; ²³ yet we proclaim a crucified Christ: to the Jews, indeed, a stumbling block, and to the Greeks foolishness: ²⁴ but to them who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ, the power of God and the wisdom of God. ²⁵ Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. ²⁶ For you see the calling of you, brethren, that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble; ²⁷ but God has chosen the foolish of the world to put the wise to shame; and the weak God has chosen to put the strong to shame; ²⁸ the ignoble of the world, and the despised, God has chosen; nay, those that are nothing, to reduce to nothing those that are; ²⁹ that not flesh might boast in his presence. ³⁰ Of him, therefore, you are in Christ Jesus, who is become to us wisdom from God, justification, also, and sanctification, and redemption. ³¹ So that, as it is written, "Let him who boasts, boast in the Lord."