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

Thanksgiving

I always thank my God for you because of the grace of God that was given to you in Christ Jesus. For you were made rich[b] in every way in him, in all your speech and in every kind of knowledge[c]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 1:3 tn Grk “Grace to you and peace.”
  2. 1 Corinthians 1:5 sn Made rich refers to how God richly blessed the Corinthians with an abundance of spiritual gifts (cf. v. 7).
  3. 1 Corinthians 1:5 sn Speech and knowledge refer to the spiritual gifts God had blessed them with (as v. 7 confirms). Paul will discuss certain abuses of their gifts in chapters 12-14, but he thanks God for their giftedness.