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title: 1 Corinthians 1
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**1 **Paul, called *to be* an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes *our* brother,

**2 **Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called *to be* saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:

**3 **Grace *be* unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and *from* the Lord Jesus Christ.

**4 **I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ; **5 **That in every thing ye are enriched by him, in all utterance, and *in* all knowledge; **6 **Even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you: **7 **So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ: **8 **Who shall also confirm you unto the end, *that ye may be* blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. **9 **God *is* faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

**10 **Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and *that* there be no divisions among you; but *that* ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. **11 **For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them *which are of the house* of Chloe, that there are contentions among you. **12 **Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I 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 ye baptized in the name of Paul? **14 **I thank God that I baptized none of you, but Crispus and Gaius; **15 **Lest any should say that I had baptized in mine own name. **16 **And I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides, I know not whether I baptized any other. **17 **For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.

**18 **For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.

**19 **For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.

**20 **Where *is* the wise? where *is* the scribe? where *is* the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? **21 **For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. **22 **For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: **23 **But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; **24 **But unto them which 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 ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, *are called*: **27 **But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; **28 **And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, *yea*, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: **29 **That no flesh should glory in his presence. **30 **But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: **31 **That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.