1 Corinthians

Murdock^{(i) 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.