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

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

to the church of God that is in Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, and called to be saints, with all those in every place who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours.

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

I always thank my God for you because of the grace of God that was given to you in Christ Jesus.

God is faithful, by whom you were called into fellowship with his son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

I thank God that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius,

For the message about 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 expert in the Mosaic law? Where is the debater of this age? Has God not made the wisdom of the world foolish?

For since in the wisdom of God the world by its wisdom did not know God, God was pleased to save those who believe by the foolishness of preaching.

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

For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.

But God chose what the world thinks foolish to shame the wise, and God chose what the world thinks weak to shame the strong.

God chose what is low and despised in the world, what is regarded as nothing, to set aside what is regarded as something,

He is the reason you have a relationship with Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

When I came to you, brothers and sisters, I did not come with superior eloquence or wisdom as I proclaimed the testimony of God.

so that your faith would not be based on human wisdom but on the power of God.

Instead we speak the wisdom of God, hidden in a mystery, that God determined before the ages for our glory.

But just as it is written, " Things that no eye has seen , or ear heard , or mind imagined , are the things God has prepared for those who love him ."

God has revealed these to us by the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.