a Rom 1:1
c Rom 1:10; 2 Tim 1:1
d Acts 18:17
e Acts 1:15
f 1 Cor 10:32
g Acts 18:1
i Rom 1:7; 8:28
j Acts 7:59
k Rom 1:7
l Rom 1:8
n 2 Cor 9:11
o Rom 15:14; 2 Cor 8:7
p Rom 15:14; 2 Cor 8:7
q 2 Thess 1:10; 1 Tim 2:6; 2 Tim 1:8; Rev 1:2
s Luke 17:30; Rom 8:19, 23; Phil 3:20; 2 Pet 3:12
t Rom 8:19; Phil 1:6; Col 2:7; 1 Thess 3:13; 5:23
u Luke 17:24, 30; 1 Cor 5:5; 2 Cor 1:14; Phil 1:6, 10; 2:16; 1 Thess 5:2; 2 Thess 2:2
v Deut 7:9; Is 49:7; 1 Cor 10:13; 2 Cor 1:18; 1 Thess 5:24; 2 Thess 3:3
w Rom 8:28
x 1 Jhn.1.3
y Rom 12:1
z Rom 1:13
ac 1 Cor 11:18
ae Rom 12:16; Phil 1:27
af Matt 23:8-10; 1 Cor 3:4
ag Acts 18:24; 1 Cor 3:22
ah John 1:42; 1 Cor 3:22; 9:5; 15:5
aj Matt 28:19; Acts 2:38
am Acts 18:8
an Acts 18:8
ao Rom 16:23
aq 1 Cor 16:15, 17
ar John 4:2; Acts 10:48
as 1 Cor 2:1, 4, 13; 2 Cor 10:10; 11:6
au 1 Cor 1:21, 23, 25; 2:14; 4:10
av Acts 2:47; 2 Cor 2:15; 4:3; 2 Thess 2:10
ay Rom 1:16; 1 Cor 1:24
az Is 29:14
ba Job 12:17; Is 19:11f; 33:18
bb Matt 13:22; 1 Cor 2:6, 8; 3:18, 19
bc Rom 1:20ff
bd John 12:31; 1 Cor 1:27f; 6:2; 11:32; James 4:4
be John 12:31; 1 Cor 1:27f; 6:2; 11:32; James 4:4
bf Luke 12:32; Gal 1:15; Col 1:19
bg 1 Cor 1:18, 23, 25; 2:14; 4:10
bi Rom 11:14; James 5:20
bj Matt 12:38
bm 1 Cor 2:2; Gal 3:1; 5:11
bn Luke 2:34; 1 Pet 2:8
bo 1 Cor 1:18, 21, 25; 2:14; 4:10
bp Rom 8:28
bq Rom 1:16; 1 Cor 1:18
br Luke 11:49; 1 Cor 1:30
bs 1 Cor 1:18, 21, 23; 2:14; 4:10
bt 2 Cor 13:4
bv Rom 11:29
bw Matt 11:25; 1 Cor 1:20; 2:8
by James 2:5
bz 1 Cor 1:20
ca 1 Cor 1:20
cb 1 Cor 1:20
cc Rom 4:17
cd Job 34:19; 1 Cor 2:6; 2 Thess 2:8; Heb 2:14
ce Eph 2:9
ch Rom 8:1; 1 Cor 4:15
ci 1 Cor 1:24
ck Jer 23:5f; 33:16; 2 Cor 5:21; Phil 3:9
cl 1 Cor 1:2; 6:11; 1 Thess 5:23
cm Rom 3:24; Eph 1:7, 14; Col 1:14
cn Jer 9:23f; 2 Cor 10:17

1 Corinthians 1

Appeal to Unity

1Paul, acalled as an apostle of Jesus Christ ▼
▼ Lit through
by cthe will of God, and dSosthenes our ebrother,

2To fthe church of God which is at gCorinth, to those who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus, ▼
▼ Or holy ones
saints iby calling, with all who in every place jcall on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours:

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

4 lI thank ▼
▼ Two early mss do not contain my
my God always concerning you for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus, 5that in everything you were nenriched in Him, in all ospeech and pall knowledge, 6even as qthe testimony concerning Christ was confirmed ▼
▼ Or among
in you, 7so that you are not lacking in any gift, sawaiting eagerly the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ, 8 twho will also confirm you to the end, blameless in uthe day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 vGod is faithful, through whom you were wcalled into xfellowship with His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

10Now yI exhort you, zbrethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all ▼
▼ Lit speak the same thing
agree and that there be no ▼
▼ Lit schisms
 , acdivisions among you, but that you be ▼
▼ Or united
made complete in aethe same mind and in the same judgment. 11For I have been informed concerning you, my brethren, by Chloe’s people, that there are quarrels among you. 12Now I mean this, that afeach one of you is saying, “I am of Paul,” and “I of agApollos,” and “I of ahCephas,” and “I of Christ.” 13 ▼
▼ Or Christ has been divided! or Christ is divided!
Has Christ been divided? Paul was not crucified for you, was he? Or were you ajbaptized ▼
▼ Lit into
in the name of Paul? 14 ▼
▼ Two early mss read I give thanks that
I thank God that I ambaptized none of you except anCrispus and aoGaius, 15so that no one would say you were baptized ▼
▼ Lit into
in my name. 16Now I did baptize also the aqhousehold of Stephanas; beyond that, I do not know whether I baptized any other. 17 arFor Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, asnot in ▼
▼ Lit wisdom
cleverness of speech, so that the cross of Christ would not be made void.

The Wisdom of God

18For the word of the cross is aufoolishness to avthose who ▼
▼ Or perish
are perishing, but to us who ▼
▼ Or are saved
are being saved it is aythe power of God. 19For it is written, az“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
And the cleverness of the clever I will set aside.”

 20 baWhere is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of bbthis age? Has not God bcmade foolish the wisdom of bdthe world? 21For since in the wisdom of God bethe world through its wisdom did not come to know God, bfGod was well-pleased through the bgfoolishness of the ▼
▼ Lit preaching
message preached to bisave those who believe. 22For indeed bjJews ask for ▼
▼ Or attesting miracles
signs and Greeks search for wisdom; 23but we preach ▼
▼ I.e. Messiah
 , bmChrist crucified, bnto Jews a stumbling block and to Gentiles bofoolishness, 24but to those who are bpthe called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ bqthe power of God and brthe wisdom of God. 25Because the bsfoolishness of God is wiser than men, and btthe weakness of God is stronger than men.

26For ▼
▼ Lit see
consider your bvcalling, brethren, that there were bwnot many wise according to ▼
▼ I.e. human standards
the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble; 27but byGod has chosen the foolish things of bzthe world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of cathe world to shame the things which are strong, 28and the base things of cbthe world and the despised God has chosen, ccthe things that are not, so that He may cdnullify the things that are, 29so that ceno ▼
▼ Lit flesh
man may boast before God. 30But ▼
▼ Lit of Him
by His doing you are in chChrist Jesus, who became to us ciwisdom from God, ▼
▼ Or both
and ckrighteousness and clsanctification, and cmredemption, 31so that, just as it is written, cn“Let him who boasts, boast in the Lord.”
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