but to those whom God has called, whether they are Jews or Greeks, a Christ who is God's power and God's wisdom.

For we are fellow-laborers for God, and you are God's farm, God's building.

For God's folly is beyond the wisdom of men, and God's weakness is beyond their strength.

Do you know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit makes its home in you?

For since in God's providence the world with all its wisdom did not come to know God, God chose, through the folly of the gospel message, to save those who had faith in him.

But by God's favor I have become what I am, and the favor he showed me has not gone for nothing, but I have worked harder than any of them, although it was not really I but the favor God showed me.

to the church of God at Corinth, to those who are consecrated by union with Christ Jesus, and called as God's people, like all those anywhere who call on the name of Jesus Christ, their Lord as well as ours;

Did God's message start from you Corinthians? Or are you the only people it has reached?

For I am the least important of the apostles, and am not fit to be called an apostle, because I once persecuted God's church.

About the collection for God's people, I want you to do as I told the churches of Galatia to do.

Now I urge you, brothers??ou know that the family of Stephanas was the first to be converted in Greece, and that they have devoted themselves to the service of God's people??16 I want you to enlist under such leaders, and under anyone who joins with you and works hard.