The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Corinthians 01
1 Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus
Christ† through the will of God, and our
brother Sosthenes,
2 to 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:
3 Grace to you and peace from God our
Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
4 I always thank my God concerning you
for the grace of God which was given you
in Christ Jesus,
5 thatineverything you were enrichedin
him, in all speech and all knowledge—
6 even as the testimony of Christ was
confirmed in you—
7 so that you come behind in no gift,
waiting for the revelationof our Lord Jesus
Christ,
8 who will also confirm you until the
end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus
Christ.
9 God is faithful, through whom you
were called into the fellowship of his Son,
Jesus Christ our Lord.
10 Now 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 among you, but that you be
perfectedtogether inthe samemindandin
the same judgment.
11 For it has been reported to me concerning
you, my brothers, by those who are from
Chloe’s household, that there are
contentions among you.
12 Now I mean this, that each one of you
says, “I follow Paul,” “I follow Apollos,” “I
follow Cephas,” and, “I follow Christ.”
13 Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified
for you? Or were you baptized into the
name of Paul?
14 Ithank God thatI baptized none of you
except Crispus and Gaius,
15 so that no one should say that I had
baptized you into my own name.
16 (I also baptized the household of
Stephanas; besides them, I don’t know
whether I baptized any other.)
17 For Christ sentmenottobaptize, butto
preach the Good News—not in wisdom of
words, so that the cross of Christ wouldn’t
be made void.
18 For the word ofthe cross is foolishness
to those who are dying, 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. I will bring
the discernment of the discerning to nothing.”*
20 Where is the wise? Where is the
scribe? Where is the debater of this age?
Hasn’t Godmade foolishthe wisdomofthis
world?
21 For 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.
22 For Jews ask for signs, Greeks seek
after wisdom,
23 but we preach Christ crucified, a
stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to
Greeks,
24 but to those who are called, both Jews
and Greeks, Christ is 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 you see your calling, brothers, that
not many are wise according to the flesh,
not many mighty, and not many noble;
27 but God chose the foolish things of the
world that he might put to shame those
who are wise. God chose the weak things
ofthe world that he might putto shame the
things that are strong.
28 God 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,
29 that no flesh should boast before God.
30 Because ofhim, youare inChristJesus,
who was made to us wisdom from God,
and righteousness and sanctification, and
redemption,
31 that, as it is written, “He who boasts,
let him boast in the Lord.”*