¹Paul , called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God , and our brother Sosthenes ,[#1:1 “Christ” means “Anointed One”.]

²to the assembly of God which is at Corinth —those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus , called saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place , both theirs and ours :

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

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

⁵that in everything you were enriched in him , in all speech and all knowledge —

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

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

⁸who will also confirm you until the end , blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ .

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

¹⁰Now I beg you , brothers, through the name of our Lord , Jesus Christ , that you all speak the same thing , and that there be no divisions amongst you , but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgement.[#1:10 The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”]

¹¹For it has been reported to me concerning you , my brothers, by those who are from Chloe ’s household, that there are contentions amongst you .

¹²Now I mean this , that each one of you says , “I follow Paul ,” “I follow Apollos,” “I follow Cephas ,” and , “I follow Christ .”

¹³Is Christ divided ? Was Paul crucified for you ? Or were you baptised into the name of Paul ?

¹⁴I thank God that I baptised none of you except Crispus and Gaius ,

¹⁵so that no one should say that I had baptised you into my own name .

¹⁶(I also baptised the household of Stephanas ; besides them , I don’t know whether I baptised any other .)

¹⁷For Christ sent me not to baptise, but to preach the Good News —not in wisdom of words , so that the cross of Christ wouldn’t be made void .

¹⁸For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, 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 .

I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing.”

²⁰Where is the wise ? Where is the scribe ? Where is the debater of this age ? Hasn’t God made foolish the wisdom of this world ?

²¹For seeing that in the wisdom of God , the world through its wisdom didn’t know God , it was God ’s good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe .

²²For Jews ask for signs , Greeks seek after wisdom ,

²³but we preach Christ crucified , a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Greeks,

²⁴but to those who are called , both Jews and Greeks , Christ is 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 you see your calling , brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh , not many mighty , and not many noble ;

²⁷but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise . God chose the weak things of the world that he might put to shame the things that are strong .

²⁸God chose the lowly things of the world , and the things that are despised , and the things that don’t exist , that he might bring to nothing the things that exist ,

²⁹that no flesh should boast before God .

³⁰Because of him , you are in Christ Jesus , who was made to us wisdom from God , and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption,

³¹that , as it is written , “He who boasts , let him boast in the Lord .”[#Jeremiah 9:24]