Thematic Bible




1 Corinthians 1:1 (show verse)

Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,

1 Corinthians 1:2 (show verse)

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

1 Corinthians 1:3 (show verse)

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

1 Corinthians 1:4 (show verse)

I always thank my God concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus;

1 Corinthians 1:5 (show verse)

that in everything you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge;

1 Corinthians 1:6 (show verse)

even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:

1 Corinthians 1:7 (show verse)

so that you are not lacking in any gift, as you wait for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ;

1 Corinthians 1:8 (show verse)

who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 1:9 (show verse)

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

1 Corinthians 1:10 (show verse)

Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

1 Corinthians 1:11 (show verse)

For it has been reported to me concerning you, my brothers, by those who are from Chloe's household, that there are contentions among you.

1 Corinthians 1:12 (show verse)

Now I mean this, that each one of you says, "I follow Paul," "I follow Apollos," "I follow Cephas," and, "I follow Christ."

1 Corinthians 1:13 (show verse)

Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized into the name of Paul?

1 Corinthians 1:14 (show verse)

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

1 Corinthians 1:15 (show verse)

so that no one should say that you had been baptized into my own name.

1 Corinthians 1:16 (show verse)

(I also baptized the household of Stephanas; besides them, I do not know whether I baptized any other.)

1 Corinthians 1:17 (show verse)

For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to proclaim the Good News?not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ would not be made void.

1 Corinthians 1:18 (show verse)

For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

1 Corinthians 1:19 (show verse)

For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing."

1 Corinthians 1:20 (show verse)

Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this world? Hasn't God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

1 Corinthians 1:21 (show verse)

For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom did not know God, it was God's good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.

1 Corinthians 1:22 (show verse)

For Jews ask for signs, Greeks seek after wisdom,

1 Corinthians 1:23 (show verse)

but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,

1 Corinthians 1:24 (show verse)

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

1 Corinthians 1:25 (show verse)

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

1 Corinthians 1:26 (show verse)

For consider your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble;

1 Corinthians 1:27 (show verse)

But God chose the foolish of the world to shame the wise. And God chose the weak of the world to shame the strong.

1 Corinthians 1:28 (show verse)

And God chose the lowly of the world, and the despised, what is considered to be nothing, to bring to nothing what is considered to be something,

1 Corinthians 1:29 (show verse)

that no flesh might boast before God.

1 Corinthians 1:30 (show verse)

And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

1 Corinthians 1:31 (show verse)

so that, as it is written, "Let him who boasts, boast in the Lord."