1Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,
2to the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be holy ones, together with all who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ — both their Lord and ours:
3Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
4I give thanks to my God always concerning you, for the grace of God given to you in Christ Jesus,
5that in everything you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge,
6just as the testimony of Christ was confirmed among you,
7so that you are not lacking in any gift, as you eagerly await the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ,
8who will also confirm you to the end as blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9God is faithful, through whom you were called into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
10Now I urge you, brothers, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all say the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be knit together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
11For it was made clear to me concerning you, my brothers, by Chloe’s people, that there are quarrels among you.
12Now I mean this, that each of you says, “I am of Paul,” or “I of Apollos,” or “I of Cephas,” or “I of Christ.”
13Has Christ been divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized into the name of Paul?
14I give thanks that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius,
15so that no one may say that you were baptized into my name.
16I did baptize also the household of Stephanas; beyond that, I do not know whether I baptized anyone else.
17For Christ did not send me to baptize but to proclaim the good news — not with wisdom of speech, so that the cross of Christ would not be emptied of its power.
18For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
19For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will set aside.”
20Where is the wise one? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
21For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not come to know God through its wisdom, God was pleased through the foolishness of what is preached to save those who believe.
22For indeed Jews ask for signs and Greeks seek wisdom,
23but we proclaim Christ crucified — to Jews a stumbling block and to Gentiles foolishness,
24but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
25Because the foolishness of God is wiser than human beings, and the weakness of God is stronger than human beings.
26For consider your calling, brothers: not many were wise by human standards, not many powerful, not many of noble birth.
27But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong;
28and God chose the lowly things of the world and the despised things, the things that are not, so as to bring to nothing the things that are,
29so that no flesh may boast before God.
30But from him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God — righteousness and sanctification and redemption —
31so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”
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