Study Desk

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

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

but now has been disclosed, and through the Scriptures of the prophets, in accordance with the commandment of the eternal God, has been made known to all the nations, 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 our brother Sosthenes,

To the church of God which is in Corinth, to those who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus, saints by calling, 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.

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 person? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has God not 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 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.

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

but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong,

and the insignificant things of the world and the despised God has chosen, the things that are not, so that He may nullify the things that are,

so that no human may boast before God.

But it is due to Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption,

And when I came to you, brothers and sisters, I did not come as someone superior in speaking ability or wisdom, as I proclaimed to you the testimony of God.

so that your faith would not rest on the wisdom of mankind, but on the power of God.