1 Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Jesus Christ, and our brother Sosthenes,
2 to the church of God which is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who in every place call upon 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 concerning you for the grace of God given you in Christ Jesus,
5 that in everything you were enriched in him, in all utterance and all knowledge,
6 even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you,
7 so that you fall short in no gift, waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ,
8 who will also confirm you to the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9 God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
10 Now I exhort you, brothers, 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 perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
11 For it has been made plain to me about you, my brothers, by those of Chloe's household, that there are contentions among you.
12 And I mean this, that each of you says, "I am of Paul," and "I of Apollos," and "I of Cephas," and "I of Christ."
13 Has Christ been divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized into the name of Paul?
14 I thank God that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius,
15 so that no one should say that I baptized into my own name.
16 And I also baptized the household of Stephanas; besides that, I do not know whether I baptized any other.
17 For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ be made of no effect.
18 For 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.
19 For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the understanding of the intelligent I will bring to nothing."
20 Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of preaching to save those who believe.
22 For indeed Jews ask for a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom;
23 but we preach Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling block and to Greeks foolishness,
24 but to those who 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 consider your calling, brothers: not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble;
27 but the foolish things of the world God chose, that he might put the wise to shame; and the weak things of the world God chose, that he might put to shame the strong things;
28 and the base things of the world and the things despised God chose, and the things that are not, that he might bring to nothing the things that are,
29 that no flesh should boast in his presence.
30 But of him are you in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, both righteousness and sanctification and redemption,
31 that, even as it is written, "He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord."