Study Desk

But I have written very boldly to you on some points so as to remind you again, because of the grace that was given me by God

for me to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, ministering as a priest the gospel of God, so that my offering of the Gentiles may become acceptable, having been sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

Therefore in Christ Jesus I have reason for boasting in things pertaining to God.

Now I urge you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,

so that I may come to you in joy by the will of God and find rest in your company.

Now may the God of peace be with you all. Amen.

And the God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.

but now is manifested, and by the Scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, has been made known to all the Gentiles, leading to obedience of faith;

to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, be the glory forever. Amen.

Paul, called as an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,

To the church of God which is at Corinth, to those who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus, called as saints, with all who in every place call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours:

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

I thank my God always concerning you for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus,

God is faithful, through whom you were called into fellowship with His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

I thank God that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius,

For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved, it is the power of God.

Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom did not come to know God, God was well-pleased, through the foolishness of the message preached, to save those who believe.

but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.

Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.