1 Corinthians 1 (ASV)

¹Paul, called `to be' an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,

²unto 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:

³Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

⁴I thank my God always concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus;

⁵that in everything ye were enriched in him, in all utterance and all knowledge;

⁶even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:

⁷so that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ;

⁸who shall also confirm you unto the end, `that ye be' unreproveable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁹God is faithful, through whom ye were called into the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

¹⁰Now I beseech you, brethren, through 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 perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

¹¹For it hath been signified unto me concerning you, my brethren, by them `that are of the household' of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

¹²Now this I mean, that each one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos: and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.

¹³Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized into the name of Paul?

¹⁴I thank God that I baptized none of you, save Crispus and Gaius;

¹⁵lest any man should say that ye were baptized into my name.

¹⁶And I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides, I know not whether I baptized any other.

¹⁷For 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.

¹⁸For the word of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us who are 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 will I bring to nought.

²⁰Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

²¹For 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.

²²Seeing that Jews ask for signs, and Greeks seek after wisdom:

²³but we preach Christ crucified, unto Jews a stumblingblock, and unto Gentiles foolishness;

²⁴but unto them that are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.

²⁵Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

²⁶For behold your calling, brethren, that not many wise after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, `are called':

²⁷but 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;

²⁸and 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 nought the things that are:

²⁹that no flesh should glory before God.

³⁰But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who was made unto us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

³¹that, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.