1 Corinthians 1
1 Paul, called to be an Apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God--and our brother Sosthenes:
Paulus vocatus apostolus Christi Iesu per voluntatem Dei et Sosthenes frater
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.
ecclesiae Dei quae est Corinthi sanctificatis in Christo Iesu vocatis sanctis cum omnibus qui invocant nomen Domini nostri Iesu Christi in omni loco ipsorum et nostro
3 May grace and peace be granted to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
gratia vobis et pax a Deo Patre nostro et Domino Iesu Christo
4 I thank my God continually on your behalf for the grace of God bestowed on you in Christ Jesus--
gratias ago Deo meo semper pro vobis in gratia Dei quae data est vobis in Christo Iesu
5 that you have been so richly blessed in Him, with readiness of speech and fulness of knowledge.
quia in omnibus divites facti estis in illo in omni verbo et in omni scientia
6 Thus my testimony as to the Christ has been confirmed in your experience,
sicut testimonium Christi confirmatum est in vobis
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,
ita ut nihil vobis desit in ulla gratia expectantibus revelationem Domini nostri Iesu Christi
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.
qui et confirmabit vos usque ad finem sine crimine in die adventus Domini nostri Iesu Christi
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.
fidelis Deus per quem vocati estis in societatem Filii eius Iesu Christi Domini nostri
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.
obsecro autem vos fratres per nomen Domini nostri Iesu Christi ut id ipsum dicatis omnes et non sint in vobis scismata sitis autem perfecti in eodem sensu et in eadem sententia
11 For I have been distinctly informed, my brethren, about you by Chloe's people, that there are dissensions among you.
significatum est enim mihi de vobis fratres mei ab his qui sunt Chloes quia contentiones inter vos sunt
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."
hoc autem dico quod unusquisque vestrum dicit ego quidem sum Pauli ego autem Apollo ego vero Cephae ego autem Christi
13 Is the Christ in fragments? Is it Paul who was crucified on your behalf? Or were you baptized to be Paul's adherents?
divisus est Christus numquid Paulus crucifixus est pro vobis aut in nomine Pauli baptizati estis
14 I thank God that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius--
gratias ago Deo quod neminem vestrum baptizavi nisi Crispum et Gaium
15 for fear people should say that you were baptized to be my adherents.
ne quis dicat quod in nomine meo baptizati sitis
16 I did, however, baptize Stephanas' household also: but I do not think that I baptized any one else.
baptizavi autem et Stephanae domum ceterum nescio si quem alium baptizaverim
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.
non enim misit me Christus baptizare sed evangelizare non in sapientia verbi ut non evacuetur crux Christi
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.
verbum enim crucis pereuntibus quidem stultitia est his autem qui salvi fiunt id est nobis virtus Dei est
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."
scriptum est enim perdam sapientiam sapientium et prudentiam prudentium reprobabo
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)
ubi sapiens ubi scriba ubi conquisitor huius saeculi nonne stultam fecit Deus sapientiam huius mundi (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.
nam quia in Dei sapientia non cognovit mundus per sapientiam Deum placuit Deo per stultitiam praedicationis salvos facere credentes
22 Seeing that Jews demand miracles, and Greeks go in search of wisdom,
quoniam et Iudaei signa petunt et Graeci sapientiam quaerunt
23 while we proclaim a Christ who has been crucified--to the Jews a stumbling-block, to Gentiles foolishness,
nos autem praedicamus Christum crucifixum Iudaeis quidem scandalum gentibus autem stultitiam
24 but to those who have received the Call, whether Jews or Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
ipsis autem vocatis Iudaeis atque Graecis Christum Dei virtutem et Dei sapientiam
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.
quia quod stultum est Dei sapientius est hominibus et quod infirmum est Dei fortius est hominibus
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.
videte enim vocationem vestram fratres quia non multi sapientes secundum carnem non multi potentes non multi nobiles
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;
sed quae stulta sunt mundi elegit Deus ut confundat sapientes et infirma mundi elegit Deus ut confundat fortia
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;
et ignobilia mundi et contemptibilia elegit Deus et quae non sunt ut ea quae sunt destrueret
29 to prevent any mortal man from boasting in the presence of God.
ut non glorietur omnis caro in conspectu eius
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;
ex ipso autem vos estis in Christo Iesu qui factus est sapientia nobis a Deo et iustitia et sanctificatio et redemptio
31 in order that it may be as Scripture says, "He who boasts--let his boast be in the Lord."
ut quemadmodum scriptum est qui gloriatur in Domino glorietur
