1 Corinthians 1 - Enriched in Christ
While the world chases fleeting riches, God enriches you in Christ Jesus through His Word.
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1 Corinthians 1 (ESV)
1 Paul, called
by the will of God
to be an apostle of Christ Jesus,
and our brother Sosthenes,
2 To the church of God
that is in Corinth,
to those
sanctified in Christ Jesus,
called to be saints
together with all those
who in every place
call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
both their Lord
and ours:
3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
4 I give thanks to my God always for you
because of the grace of God
that was given you
in Christ Jesus,
5 that in every way you were enriched
in him
in all speech and all knowledge—
6 even as the testimony about Christ was confirmed among you—
7 so that you are not lacking in any gift,
as you wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ,
8 who will sustain you to the end,
guiltless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9 God is faithful,
by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
10 I appeal to you, brothers,
by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
that all of you agree,
and that there be no divisions among you,
but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment.
11 For it has been reported to me
by Chloe’s people
that there is quarreling among you, my brothers.
12 What I mean is that each one of you says,
“I follow Paul,”
or “I follow Apollos,”
or “I follow Cephas,”
or “I follow Christ.”
13 Is Christ divided?
Was Paul crucified for you?
Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?
14 I thank God that I baptized none of you
except Crispus
and Gaius,
15 so that no one may say that you were baptized in my name.
16 (I did baptize also the household of Stephanas.
Beyond that, I do not know whether I baptized anyone else.)
17 For Christ did not send me to baptize
but to preach the gospel,
and not with words of eloquent wisdom,
lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.
18 For the word of the cross
is folly to those who are perishing,
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,
and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.”
20 Where
is the one who is wise?
Where is the scribe?
Where is the debater of this age?
Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
21 For since, in the wisdom of God,
the world did not know God through wisdom,
it pleased God
through the folly of what we preach