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Chapter 16
Personal Greetings
1I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a servant of the church at Cenchreae,
2that you may welcome her in the Lord in a way worthy of the saints, and help her in whatever she may need from you, for she has been a patron of many and of myself as well.
3Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,
4who risked their necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks but all the churches of the Gentiles give thanks as well.
5Greet also the church in their house. Greet my beloved Epaenetus, who was the first convertGreek firstfruit to Christ in Asia.
6Greet Mary, who has worked hard for you.
7Greet Andronicus and Junia,Or Junias my kinsmen and my fellow prisoners. They are well known to the apostles,Or messengers and they were in Christ before me.
8Greet Ampliatus, my beloved in the Lord.
9Greet Urbanus, our fellow worker in Christ, and my beloved Stachys.
10Greet Apelles, who is approved in Christ. Greet those who belong to the family of Aristobulus.
11Greet my kinsman Herodion. Greet those in the Lord who belong to the family of Narcissus.
12Greet those workers in the Lord, Tryphaena and Tryphosa. Greet the beloved Persis, who has worked hard in the Lord.
13Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord; also his mother, who has been a mother to me as well.
14Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brothersOr brothers and sisters; also verse 17 who are with them.
15Greet Philologus, Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints who are with them.
16Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you.
Final Instructions and Greetings
17I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them.
18For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites,Greek their own belly and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.
19For your obedience is known to all, so that I rejoice over you, but I want you to be wise as to what is good and innocent as to what is evil.
20The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
21Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you; so do Lucius and Jason and Sosipater, my kinsmen.
22I Tertius, who wrote this letter, greet you in the Lord.
23Gaius, who is host to me and to the whole church, greets you. Erastus, the city treasurer, and our brother Quartus, greet you.Some manuscripts insert verse 24: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
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Doxology
25Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery that was kept secret for long ages
26but has now been disclosed and through the prophetic writings has been made known to all nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith—
27to the only wise God be glory forevermore through Jesus Christ! Amen.
1 Corinthians
Chapter 1
Greeting
1Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and our brother Sosthenes,
2To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:
3Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Thanksgiving
4I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus,
5that in every way you were enriched in him in all speech and all knowledge—
6even as the testimony about Christ was confirmed among you—
7so that you are not lacking in any spiritual gift, as you wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ,
8who will sustain you to the end, guiltless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
Divisions in the Church
10I appeal to you, brothers,Or brothers and sisters. The plural Greek word adelphoi (translated &ldblquot;brothers&rdblquot;) refers to siblings in a family. In New Testament usage, depending on the context, adelphoi may refer either to men or to both men and women who are siblings (brothers and sisters) in God's family, the church; also verses 11, 26 by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment.
11For it has been reported to me by Chloe's people that there is quarreling among you, my brothers.
12What I mean is that each one of you says, “I follow Paul,” or “I follow Apollos,” or “I follow Cephas,” or “I follow Christ.”
13Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?
14I thank God that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius,
15so that no one may say that you were baptized in my name.
16(I did baptize also the household of Stephanas. Beyond that, I do not know whether I baptized anyone else.)
17For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.
Christ the Wisdom and Power of God
18For 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.
19For it is written,
“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.”
20Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
21For 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.
22For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom,
23but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles,
24but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
25For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
26For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards,Greek according to the flesh not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth.
27But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong;
28God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are,
29so that no human beingGreek no flesh might boast in the presence of God.
30He is the source of your life in Christ Jesus, whom God made our wisdom and our righteousness and sanctification and redemption.
31Therefore, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”
Chapter 2
Proclaiming Christ Crucified
1And I, when I came to you, brothers,Or brothers and sisters did not come proclaiming to you the testimonySome manuscripts mystery (or secret) of God with lofty speech or wisdom.
2For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
3And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling,
4and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
5that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.
Wisdom from the Spirit
6Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away.
7But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory.
8None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
9But, as it is written,
“What no eye has seen, nor ear heard,
nor the heart of man imagined,
what God has prepared for those who love him”—
10these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.
11For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
12Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God.
13And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.Or interpreting spiritual truths in spiritual language, or comparing spiritual things with spiritual
14The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
15The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one.
16“For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.

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