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

but is now disclosed and through the prophetic writings is made known to all nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith--

to the only wise God be glory for evermore through Jesus Christ! Amen.

Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and our brother Sos'thenes,

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

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

I give thanks to God always for you because of the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus,

God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

For the word of the cross is folly 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 did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.

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

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

but God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong,

God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are,

so that no human being might boast in the presence of God.

He is the source of your life in Christ Jesus, whom God made our wisdom, our righteousness and sanctification and redemption;

When I came to you, brethren, I did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God in lofty words or wisdom.

that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.

But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glorification.