1 Corinthians 1

1 Paul, called to be an Apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God--and our brother Sosthenes:

Paul, a called apostle of Jesus Christ, through the will of God, and Sosthenes the brother,

2 To the Church of God in Corinth, men and women consecrated in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all in every place who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ-- their Lord as well as ours.

to the Assembly of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called holy ones, with all those calling on the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place—both theirs and ours:

3 May grace and peace be granted to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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

4 I thank my God continually on your behalf for the grace of God bestowed on you in Christ Jesus--

I give thanks to my God always concerning you for the grace of God that was given to you in Christ Jesus,

5 that you have been so richly blessed in Him, with readiness of speech and fulness of knowledge.

that in everything you were enriched in Him, in all discourse and all knowledge,

6 Thus my testimony as to the Christ has been confirmed in your experience,

according as the testimony of the Christ was confirmed in you,

7 so that there is no gift of God in which you consciously come short while patiently waiting for the reappearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,

so that you are not behind in any gift, waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ,

8 who will also keep you stedfast to the very End, so that you will be free from reproach on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

who also will confirm you to the end—unblamable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ;

9 God is ever true to His promises, and it was by Him that you were, one and all, called into fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ, our Lord.

faithful [is] God, through whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

10 Now I entreat you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to cultivate a spirit of harmony--all of you--and that there be no divisions among you, but rather a perfect union through your having one mind and one judgement.

And I call on you, brothers, through the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that the same thing you may all say, and there may not be divisions among you, and you may be perfected in the same mind, and in the same judgment,

11 For I have been distinctly informed, my brethren, about you by Chloe's people, that there are dissensions among you.

for it was signified to me concerning you, my brothers, by those of Chloe, that contentions are among you;

12 What I mean is that each of you is a partisan. One man says "I belong to Paul;" another "I belong to Apollos;" a third "I belong to Peter;" a fourth "I belong to Christ."

and I say this, that each one of you says, “I, indeed, am of Paul,” and “I of Apollos,” and “I of Cephas,” and “I of Christ.”

13 Is the Christ in fragments? Is it Paul who was crucified on your behalf? Or were you baptized to be Paul's adherents?

Has the Christ been divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you immersed into the name of Paul?

14 I thank God that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius--

I give thanks to God that I immersed no one of you, except Crispus and Gaius—

15 for fear people should say that you were baptized to be my adherents.

that no one may say that to my own name I immersed;

16 I did, however, baptize Stephanas' household also: but I do not think that I baptized any one else.

and I also immersed Stephanas’ household—further, I have not known if I immersed any other.

17 Christ did not send me to baptize, but to proclaim the Good News; and not in merely wise words--lest the Cross of Christ should be deprived of its power.

For Christ did not send me to immerse, but to proclaim good news, not in wisdom of discourse, that the Cross of the Christ may not be made of no effect;

18 For the Message of the Cross is foolishness to those who are on the way to perdition, but it is the power of God to those whom He is saving.

for the word of the Cross to those indeed perishing is foolishness, and to us—those being saved—it is the power of God,

19 For so it stands written, "I will exhibit the nothingness of the wisdom of the wise, and the intelligence of the intelligent I will bring to nought."

for it has been written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the intelligence of the intelligent I will bring to nothing”;

20 Where is your wise man? Where your expounder of the Law? Where your investigator of the questions of this present age? Has not God shown the world's wisdom to be utter foolishness? (aiōn g165)

where [is] the wise? Where the scribe? Where a disputer of this age? Did God not make foolish the wisdom of this world? (aiōn g165)

21 For after the world by its wisdom--as God in His wisdom had ordained--had failed to gain the knowledge of God, God was pleased, by the apparent foolishness of the Message which we preach, to save those who accepted it.

For seeing in the wisdom of God the world through the wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the preaching to save those believing.

22 Seeing that Jews demand miracles, and Greeks go in search of wisdom,

Since also Jews ask a sign, and Greeks seek wisdom,

23 while we proclaim a Christ who has been crucified--to the Jews a stumbling-block, to Gentiles foolishness,

also we preach Christ crucified, to Jews, indeed, a stumbling-block, and to Greeks foolishness,

24 but to those who have received the Call, whether Jews or Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.

and to those called—both Jews and Greeks—Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God,

25 Because that which the world deems foolish in God is wiser than men's wisdom, and that which it deems feeble in God is mightier than men's might.

because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men;

26 For consider, brethren, God's call to you. Not many who are wise with merely human wisdom, not many of position and influence, not many of noble birth have been called.

for see your calling, brothers, that not many [are] wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble;

27 But God has chosen the things which the world regards as foolish, in order to put its wise men to shame; and God has chosen the things which the world regards as destitute of influence, in order to put its powerful things to shame;

but God chose the foolish things of the world that He may put the wise to shame; and God chose the weak things of the world that He may put the strong to shame;

28 and the things which the world regards as base, and those which it sets utterly at nought--things that have no existence--God has chosen in order to reduce to nothing things that do exist;

and God chose the base things of the world, and the things despised, and the things that are not, that He may make useless the things that are—

29 to prevent any mortal man from boasting in the presence of God.

that no flesh may glory before Him;

30 But you--and it is all God's doing--are in Christ Jesus: He has become for us a wisdom which is from God, consisting of righteousness and sanctification and deliverance;

but out of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us from God wisdom, righteousness also, and sanctification, and redemption,

31 in order that it may be as Scripture says, "He who boasts--let his boast be in the Lord."

that, according as it has been written: “He who is glorying—let him glory in the LORD.”