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God is faithful, who has called you into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
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What I mean is this: One of you says, “I follow Paul”; another, “I follow Apollos”; another, “I follow Cephas”; still another, “I follow Christ.”
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Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Were you baptized in the name of Paul?
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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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For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”
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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 the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.
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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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Therefore, as it is written: “Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord.”
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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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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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This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.
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The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments,
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You are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not worldly? Are you not acting like mere humans?
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What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came to believe—as the Lord has assigned to each his task.
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So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.
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By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as a wise builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should build with care.
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For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.
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their work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each person’s work.
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If it is burned up, the builder will suffer loss but yet will be saved—even though only as one escaping through the flames.
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If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person; for God’s temple is sacred, and you together are that temple.
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For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness”;
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and you are of Christ, and Christ is of God.
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The Nature of True Apostleship
This, then, is how you ought to regard us: as servants of Christ and as those entrusted with the mysteries God has revealed.
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Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful.
