1 Corinthians 1
1:1Paul, a chosen apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, and Sosthenes the brother,
1:2to the assembly of God, to the one being in Corinth, having been sanctified in Christ Jesus, chosen holy ones, with all the ones calling upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours.
1:3Favor to you and peace from God our father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
1:4I give thanks to my God at all times for you, for the favor of God, to the one being given to you in Christ Jesus;
1:5that in everything you were enriched in him in all word and in all knowledge;
1:6as the testimony of the Christ was firmed up in you,
1:7so that you be not lacking in not one favor; awaiting the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ,
1:8who also will firm up you unto the end, without reproach in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1:9Trustworthy is God through whom you were called into a fellowship of his son Jesus Christ our Lord.
1:10And I appeal to you, brethren, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you should all say the same thing, and there should be no splits among you; but that you should be readying yourselves with the same mind, and with the same opinion.
1:11For it was made manifest to me concerning you, my brethren, by the ones of Chloe, that there are strifes among you.
1:12And I say this, that each of you says, I indeed am of Paul, and I of Apollos, and I of Cephas, and I of Christ.
1:13Has the Christ been portioned? Was Paul crucified for you? Or in the name of Paul were you immersed?
1:14I give thanks to God that not one of you I immersed except Crispus and Gaius,
1:15that not any should say that in my name he was immersed.
1:16And I immersed also the house of Stephanas; the rest I do not know if any other I immersed.
1:17For Christ did not send me to immerse, but to announce good news; not in wisdom of word, lest the cross of the Christ should be an empty work.
1:18For the word, the one of the cross, to the ones indeed perishing is moronishness; but to the ones being preserved, to us it is the power of God.
1:19For it has been written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; and the understanding of the experts I will disregard.
1:20Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this eon? Did not God make moronish the wisdom of this world?
1:21For since in the wisdom of God the world did not know God through wisdom, God thought well through the moronishness of the proclamation to deliver the ones believing.
1:22Since both Jews ask for a sign, and Greeks seek by wisdom;
1:23but we proclaim Christ being crucified, to Jews indeed an obstacle, and to Greeks moronishness;
1:24but to these the chosen, both Jews and Greeks, Christ, God's power and God's wisdom.
1:25For the moronish of God is wiser than the wisdom of men; and the weakness of God is stronger than the strength of men.
1:26For you see your calling, brethren, that there are not many wise according to flesh, not many mighty, not many well-born.
1:27But the moronish of the world God chose, that the wise should be disgraced; and the weak of the world God chose, that the strong should be disgraced.
1:28And the ignoble of the world, and the ones being treated with contempt God chose, and the things not being; that the things being he should render useless;
1:29so that all flesh should not boast before him.
1:30But you are of him in Christ Jesus, who became wisdom to us from God, both righteousness and sanctification and release by ransom;
1:31that, as it has been written, The one boasting, let him boast in the Lord!