Murdock - I Corinthians - 1

1:1  PAUL, called and sent by Jesus Messiah in the good pleasure of God; and Sosthenes, a brother;

1:2  to the church of God which is at Corinth, to the people called and sanctified, who are sanctified in Jesus Messiah; and to all them, in every place, who invoke the name of our Lord Jesus Messiah, their and our Lord:

1:3  Grace be with you, and peace; from God our Father, and from our Lord Jesus Messiah.

1:4  I thank my God at all times on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given to you in Jesus Messiah;

1:5  that in every thing ye are enriched by him, in all discourse, and in all knowledge;

1:6  even as the testimony of Messiah was confirmed among you:

1:7  so that ye are not inferior in any one of his gifts; but are waiting for the manifestation of our Lord Jesus Messiah:

1:8  who will confirm you unto the end, so that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Messiah.

1:9  God is faithful; by whom ye have been called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Messiah, our Lord.

1:10  And I beseech you, my Brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Messiah, that to you all there may be one language; and that there may be no divisions among you: but that ye may become perfectly of one mind, and of one way of thinking.

1:11  For concerning you, my Brethren, it hath been reported to me by the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

1:12  And this I state: That one of you saith, I am of Paul; and another saith, I am of Apollos; and another saith, I am of Cephas; and another saith, I am of Messiah.

1:13  Now was Messiah divided? Or was Paul crucified for you? Or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?

1:14  I thank my God that I baptized none of you, except Crispus and Gaius;

1:15  lest any one should say, that I baptized in my own name.

1:16  I moreover baptized the household of Stephanas: but further, I know not that I baptized any other.

1:17  For Messiah did not send me to baptize, but to preach; not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Messiah should be inefficient.

1:18  For a discourse concerning the cross is, to them who perish, foolishness; but to us who live, it is the energy of God.

1:19  For it is written: I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; and I will dissipate the intelligence of the sagacious.

1:20  Where is the wise? Or where is the scribe? Or where is the disputant of this world? Lo, hath not God showed, that the wisdom of this world is folly?

1:21  For in the wisdom of God, because the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God, by the foolishness of preaching, to quicken them who believe.

1:22  Because the Jews ask for signs, and the Gentiles demand wisdom.

1:23  But we preach Messiah as crucified; which is a stumbling-block to the Jews, and foolishness to the Gentiles;

1:24  but to them who are called, both Jews and Gentiles, Messiah is the energy of God, and the wisdom of God.

1:25  Because the foolishness of God, is wiser than men; and the feebleness of God, is stronger than men.

1:26  For look also at your calling, my Brethren; that not many among you are wise, according to the flesh; and not many among you are mighty, and not many among you are of high birth.

1:27  But God hath chosen the foolish ones of the world, to shame the wise; and he hath chosen the feeble ones of the world, to shame the mighty;

1:28  and he hath chosen those of humble birth in the world, and the despised, and them who are nothing, to bring to naught them who are something:

1:29  so that no flesh might, glory before him.

1:30  And ye, moreover, are of him in Jesus Messiah; who hath become to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption :

1:31  according to that which is written: He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.