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            <div class="label">1</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1CO.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">PAUL, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Sosthenes a brother,</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1CO.1.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1CO.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">To the church of God that is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that invoke the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, in every place of theirs and ours.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1CO.1.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1CO.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1CO.1.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1CO.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I give thanks to my God always for you, for the grace of God that is given you in Christ Jesus,</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1CO.1.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1CO.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">That in all things you are made rich in him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1CO.1.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1CO.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">As the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you,</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1CO.1.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1CO.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">So that nothing is wanting to you in any grace, waiting for the manifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1CO.1.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1CO.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Who also will confirm you unto the end without crime, in the day of the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1CO.1.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1CO.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">God is faithful: by whom you are called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1CO.1.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1CO.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no schisms among you; but that you be perfect in the same mind, and in the same judgment.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1CO.1.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1CO.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For it hath been signified unto me, my brethren, of you, by them that are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1CO.1.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1CO.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Now this I say, that every one of you saith: I indeed am of Paul; and I am of Apollo; and I am of Cephas; and I of Christ.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1CO.1.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1CO.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Is Christ divided? Was Paul then crucified for you? or were you baptized in the name of Paul?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1CO.1.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1CO.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I give God thanks, that I baptized none of you but Crispus and Caius;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1CO.1.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1CO.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Lest any should say that you were baptized in my name.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1CO.1.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1CO.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">And I baptized also the household of Stephanus; besides, I know not whether I baptized any other.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1CO.1.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1CO.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not in wisdom of speech, lest the cross of Christ should be made void.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1CO.1.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1CO.1.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">For the word of the cross, to them indeed that perish, is foolishness; but to them that are saved, that is, to us, it is the power of God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1CO.1.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1CO.1.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">For it is written: I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the prudence of the prudent I will reject.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1CO.1.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1CO.1.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">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?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1CO.1.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1CO.1.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">For seeing that in the wisdom of God the world, by wisdom, knew not God, it pleased God, by the foolishness of our preaching, to save them that believe.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1CO.1.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1CO.1.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">For both the Jews require signs, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1CO.1.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1CO.1.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews indeed a stumblingblock, and unto the Gentiles foolishness:</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1CO.1.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1CO.1.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">But unto them that are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1CO.1.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="1CO.1.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">For the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="1CO.1.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="1CO.1.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">For see your vocation, brethren, that there are not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble:</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="1CO.1.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="1CO.1.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">But the foolish things of the world hath God chosen, that he may confound the wise; and the weak things of the world hath God chosen, that he may confound the strong.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="1CO.1.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="1CO.1.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">And the base things of the world, and the things that are contemptible, hath God chosen, and things that are not, that he might bring to nought things that are:</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="1CO.1.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="1CO.1.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">That no flesh should glory in his sight.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="1CO.1.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="1CO.1.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">But of him are you in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and justice, and sanctification, and redemption:</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="1CO.1.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="1CO.1.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">That, as it is written: He that glorieth, may glory in the Lord.</span></span></div>
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PAUL, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Sosthenes a brother,
To the church of God that is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that invoke the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, in every place of theirs and ours.
Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
I give thanks to my God always for you, for the grace of God that is given you in Christ Jesus,
That in all things you are made rich in him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge;
As the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you,
So that nothing is wanting to you in any grace, waiting for the manifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Who also will confirm you unto the end without crime, in the day of the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
God is faithful: by whom you are called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no schisms among you; but that you be perfect in the same mind, and in the same judgment.
For it hath been signified unto me, my brethren, of you, by them that are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.
Now this I say, that every one of you saith: I indeed am of Paul; and I am of Apollo; and I am of Cephas; and I of Christ.
Is Christ divided? Was Paul then crucified for you? or were you baptized in the name of Paul?
I give God thanks, that I baptized none of you but Crispus and Caius;
Lest any should say that you were baptized in my name.
And I baptized also the household of Stephanus; besides, I know not whether I baptized any other.
For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not in wisdom of speech, lest the cross of Christ should be made void.
For the word of the cross, to them indeed that perish, is foolishness; but to them that are saved, that is, to us, it is the power of God.
For it is written: I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the prudence of the prudent I will reject.
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?
For seeing that in the wisdom of God the world, by wisdom, knew not God, it pleased God, by the foolishness of our preaching, to save them that believe.
For both the Jews require signs, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews indeed a stumblingblock, and unto the Gentiles foolishness:
But unto them that are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
For the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
For see your vocation, brethren, that there are not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble:
But the foolish things of the world hath God chosen, that he may confound the wise; and the weak things of the world hath God chosen, that he may confound the strong.
And the base things of the world, and the things that are contemptible, hath God chosen, and things that are not, that he might bring to nought things that are:
That no flesh should glory in his sight.
But of him are you in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and justice, and sanctification, and redemption:
That, as it is written: He that glorieth, may glory in the Lord.

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