1Cor 1
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Paul, called [to be] an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes
our brother,
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to the church of God which is at Corinth, [even] them that are sanctified in Christ
Jesus, called [to be] saints, with all that call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ
in every place, their [Lord] and ours:
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Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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I thank my God always concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in
Christ Jesus;
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that in everything you were enriched in him, in all utterance and all knowledge;
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even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:
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so that you come behind in no gift; waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ;
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who shall also confirm you to the end, [that you be] unreproveable in the day of our
Lord Jesus Christ.
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God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son Jesus
Christ our Lord.
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Now I beseech you, brethren, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all
speak the same thing and [that] there be no divisions among you; but [that] you be
perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
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For it has been signified to me concerning you, my brethren, by them [that are of
the household] of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.
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Now this I mean, that each one of you says, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos: and I
of Cephas; and I of Christ.
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Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were you baptized into the name
of Paul?
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I thank God that I baptized none of you, save Crispus and Gaius;
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lest any man should say that you were baptized into my name.
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And I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides, I know not whether I baptized
any other.
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For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not in wisdom of words,
lest the cross of Christ should be made void.
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For the word of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but to us who are saved
it is the power of God.
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For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And the discernment of the
discerning will I bring to nothing.
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Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? has not
God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
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For seeing that in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom knew not God, it
was God`s good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save them that
believe.
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Seeing that Jews ask for signs, and Greeks seek after wisdom:
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but we preach Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling block, and to Gentiles foolishness;
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but to them that are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the
wisdom of God.
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Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger
than men.
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For behold your calling, brethren, that not many wise after the flesh, not many mighty,
not many noble, [are called]:
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but God chose the foolish things of the world, that he might put to shame them that
are wise; and God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the
things that are strong;
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and the base things of the world, and the things that are despised, did God choose,
[yea] and the things that are not, that he might bring to nothing the things that
are:
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that no flesh should glory before God.
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But of him are you in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness
and sanctification, and redemption:
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that, according as it is written, He who glories, let him glory in the Lord.