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1st Corinthians Chapter 1 - American Standard Version
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- Paul, called [to be] an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,
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- unto 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:
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- Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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- I thank my God always concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus;
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- that in everything ye were enriched in him, in all utterance and all knowledge;
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- even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:
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- so that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ;
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- who shall also confirm you unto the end, [that ye be] unreproveable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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- God is faithful, through whom ye were called into the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
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- Now 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.
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- For 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.
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- Now 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.
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- Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized into the name of Paul?
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- I thank God that I baptized none of you, save Crispus and Gaius;
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- lest any man should say that ye were baptized into my name.
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- And I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides, I know not whether I baptized any other.
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- For 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.
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- For the word of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us who are saved it is the power of God.
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- For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And the discernment of the discerning will I bring to nought.
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- Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
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- For 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.
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- Seeing that Jews ask for signs, and Greeks seek after wisdom:
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- but we preach Christ crucified, unto Jews a stumblingblock, and unto Gentiles foolishness;
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- but unto them that are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
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- Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
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- For behold your calling, brethren, that not many wise after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, [are called]:
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- but 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;
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- and 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:
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- that no flesh should glory before God.
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- But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who was made unto us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:
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- that, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.