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I continually give thanks to God on your behalf, for the favour he has bestowed on you thro' Jesus Christ;

and God will confirm you to the end, that ye may be unaccused in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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

where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputant of this age? has not God prov'd the wisdom of this world to be downright folly.

for whereas the world, with all their learning, did not distinguish the characters of his divine wisdom, in his works, it pleased God to save those who believe, by preaching, which they counted folly.

both Jews and Gentiles, he is the Christ, the power of God, and the wisdom of God.

but God hath chosen those who are foolish in the opinion of the world, to confound the wise; and the weak men of the world to confound the mighty:

those who were looked upon by the world as vile, as despicable, as nothing, these has God chosen to reduce their sufficiency to nothing.

that no man might glory before God;

for from him it is that ye believe in Christ Jesus, whom God has made to us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: that,

but we explain that mysterious plan of divine wisdom, which God had contriv'd before the ages, for our glory:

but, as it is written , "eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entred into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him."

this is what God has revealed to us by his spirit: for the spirit penetrates into all things, even the profound counsels of God.

for who knows the thoughts of a man, but the spirit of man which is in him? even so the thoughts of God no one can know, but the spirit of God.

now the spirit which we have received, is not the spirit of this world, but that which comes from God; that we might know what he has graciously bestowed upon us.

but the animal man does not receive the effusions of the spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him; neither can he understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

I have planted, Apollos watered: but God gave the increase.

so then, neither is he that planted any thing, nor he that watered: it is God only that gives the increase.

For we are fellow labourers employed by God: you are his field, and his mansion.

according to the free gift of God bestowed upon me, I, as a skilful architect, have laid the foundation, and another builds thereon. but let every man take heed how he builds thereupon.