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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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Therefore you do not lack any spiritual gift as you eagerly wait for our Lord Jesus Christ to be revealed.
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He will also keep you firm to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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God is faithful, who has called you into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
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A Church Divided Over Leaders
I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another in what you say and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly united in mind and thought.
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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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For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel—not with wisdom and eloquence, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.
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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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but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,
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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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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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For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
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for, “Who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
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The Church and Its Leaders
Brothers and sisters, I could not address you as people who live by the Spirit but as people who are still worldly—mere infants in Christ.
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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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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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We are fools for Christ, but you are so wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are honored, we are dishonored!
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Even if you had ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel.
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For this reason I have sent to you Timothy, my son whom I love, who is faithful in the Lord. He will remind you of my way of life in Christ Jesus, which agrees with what I teach everywhere in every church.
