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

I thank my God always about you, in respect of the grace of God given to you in Christ Jesus;

For Christ has not sent me to baptise, but to preach glad tidings; not in wisdom of word, that the cross of the Christ may not be made vain.

For the word of the cross is to them that perish foolishness, but to us that are saved it is God's power.

According to the grace of God which has been given to me, as a wise architect, I have laid the foundation, but another builds upon it. But let each see how he builds upon it.

Now if any one build upon this foundation, gold, silver, precious stones, wood, grass, straw,

But by God's grace I am what I am; and his grace, which was towards me, has not been vain; but I have laboured more abundantly than they all, but not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you.