| 1 | Paul, [a] called apostle of Jesus Christ, by God's will, and Sosthenes the brother, |
| 2 | 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. |