1 Corinthians 1

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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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To the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be
saints, with all that in every place call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both their's and
our's:  3Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.  4I
thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ;
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That in every thing you are enriched by him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge;  6Even as the
testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:  7So that you come behind in no gift; waiting for the
coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:  8Who shall also confirm you to the end, that you may be
blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.  9God is faithful, by whom you were called to the
fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.  10Now I beseech you, brothers, by the name of our
Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you;
but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.  11For it has
been declared to me of you, my brothers, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are
contentions among you.  12Now this I say, that every one of you said, I am of Paul; and I of
Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.  13Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or
were you baptized in the name of Paul?  14I thank God that I baptized none of you, but Crispus
and Gaius;  15Lest any should say that I had baptized in my own name.  16And I baptized also the
household of Stephanas: besides, I know not whether I baptized any other.  17For Christ sent me
not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should
be made of none effect.  18For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but to
us which are saved it is the power of God.  19For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the
wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.  20Where is the wise? where is
the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? has not God made foolish the wisdom of this
world?  21For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God
by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.  22For the Jews require a sign, and the
Greeks seek after wisdom:  23But we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block, and
to the Greeks foolishness;  24But to them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the
power of God, and the wisdom of God.  25Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and
the weakness of God is stronger than men.  26For you see your calling, brothers, how that not
many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:  27But God has
chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God has chosen the weak things
of the world to confound the things which are mighty;  28And base things of the world, and things
which are despised, has God chosen, yes, and things which are not, to bring to nothing things
that are:  29That no flesh should glory in his presence.  30But of him are you in Christ Jesus, who
of God is made to us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:  31That,
according as it is written, He that glories, let him glory in the Lord.

1 Corinthians 2
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And I, brothers, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom,
declaring to you the testimony of God.  2For I determined not to know any thing among you,
save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.  3And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much
trembling.  4And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but
in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:  5That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of
men, but in the power of God.  6However, we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not
the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nothing:  7But we speak
the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world
to our glory:  8Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would
not have crucified the Lord of glory.  9But as it is written, Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither
have entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for them that love him.
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But God has revealed them to us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep
things of God.  11For what man knows the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in
him? even so the things of God knows no man, but the Spirit of God.  12Now we have received,
not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are
freely given to us of God.  13Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom
teaches, but which the Holy Ghost teaches; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.  14But the
natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness to him: neither
can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.  15But he that is spiritual judges all
things, yet he himself is judged of no man.  16For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he
may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.