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Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,
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To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be his holy people, together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ—their Lord and ours:
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Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Thanksgiving
I always thank my God for you because of his grace given you in Christ Jesus.
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God thus confirming our testimony about Christ among you.
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God is faithful, who has called you into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
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I thank God that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius,
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Christ Crucified Is God’s Power and Wisdom
For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
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Where is the wise person? Where is the teacher of the law? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
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For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe.
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but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
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For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.
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Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth.
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But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.
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God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are,
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It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption.
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And so it was with me, brothers and sisters. When I came to you, I did not come with eloquence or human wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.
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so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power.
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God’s Wisdom Revealed by the Spirit
We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.
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No, we declare God’s wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began.
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However, as it is written: “What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived”— the things God has prepared for those who love him—
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these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.
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For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
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What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us.
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The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.
