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1:1 Paul, called [to be] an apostle of Jesus Christ through the
 will of God, and Sosthenes [our] brother,
1:2 Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are
 sanctified in Christ Jesus, called [to be] saints, with all
 that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our
 Lord, both theirs and ours:
1:3 Grace [be] unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and
 [from] the Lord Jesus Christ.
1:4 I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God
 which is given you by Jesus Christ;
1:5 That in every thing ye are enriched by him, in all
 utterance, and [in] all knowledge;
1:6 Even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:
1:7 So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of
 our Lord Jesus Christ:
1:8 Who shall also confirm you unto the end, [that ye may be]
 blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1:9 God [is] faithful, by whom ye were called unto the
 fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
1:10 Now I beseech you, brethren, by 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 perfectly joined
 together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
1:11 For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by
 them [which are of the house] of Chloe, that there are
 contentions among you.
1:12 Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul;
 and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.
1:13 Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye
 baptized in the name of Paul?
1:14 I thank God that I baptized none of you, but Crispus and
 Gaius;
1:15 Lest any should say that I had baptized in mine own name.
1:16 And I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides, I
 know not whether I baptized any other.
1:17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the
 gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ
 should be made of none effect.
1:18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish
 foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of
 God.
1:19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
 and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
1:20 Where [is] the wise? where [is] the scribe? where [is] the
 disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of
 this world?
1:21 For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom
 knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to
 save them that believe.
1:22 For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after
 wisdom:
1:23 But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a
 stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;
1:24 But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks,
 Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
1:25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the
 weakness of God is stronger than men.
1:26 For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise
 men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, [are
 called]:
1:27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to
 confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the
 world to confound the things which are mighty;
1:28 And base things of the world, and things which are
 despised, hath God chosen, [yea], and things which are not, to
 bring to nought things that are:
1:29 That no flesh should glory in his presence.
1:30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto
 us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and
 redemption:
1:31 That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him
 glory in the Lord.
2:1 And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with
 excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the
 testimony of God.
2:2 For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus
 Christ, and him crucified.
2:3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much
 trembling.
2:4 And my speech and my preaching [was] not with enticing words
 of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of
 power:
2:5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but
 in the power of God.
2:6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not
 the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world,
 that come to nought:
2:7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, [even] the
 hidden [wisdom], which God ordained before the world unto our
 glory:
2:8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they
 known [it], they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
2:9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard,
 neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which
 God hath prepared for them that love him.
2:10 But God hath revealed [them] unto us by his Spirit: for the
 Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
2:11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit
 of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no
 man, but the Spirit of God.
2:12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the
 spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are
 freely given to us of God.
2:13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's
 wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing
 spiritual things with spiritual.
2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit
 of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know
 [them], because they are spiritually discerned.
2:15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself
 is judged of no man.
2:16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may
 instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
3:1 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual,
 but as unto carnal, [even] as unto babes in Christ.
3:2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye
 were not able [to bear it], neither yet now are ye able.
3:3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas [there is] among you
 envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk
 as men?
3:4 For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I [am] of
 Apollos; are ye not carnal?
3:5 Who then is Paul, and who [is] Apollos, but ministers by
 whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?
3:6 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
3:7 So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he
 that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
3:8 Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every
 man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.
3:9 For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's
 husbandry, [ye are] God's building.
3:10 According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a
 wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another
 buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth
 thereupon.
3:11 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid,
 which is Jesus Christ.
3:12 Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver,
 precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
3:13 Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall
 declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire
 shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
3:14 If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he
 shall receive a reward.
3:15 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss:
 but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and [that] the
 Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
3:17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy;
 for the temple of God is holy, which [temple] ye are.
3:18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to
 be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be
 wise.
3:19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For
 it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
3:20 And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that
 they are vain.
3:21 Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are
 yours;
3:22 Whether Paul, or Apollos, or