PAUL, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, with brother Sosthenes,

to the church of God at Corinth, to those who are consecrated in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, as well as to all who, wherever they may be, invoke the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord no less than ours:

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

I always thank my God for the grace of God that has been bestowed on you in Christ Jesus;

Thus you lack no spiritual endowment during these days of waiting till our Lord Jesus Christ is revealed;

and to the very end he will guarantee that you are vindicated on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Faithful is the God who called you to this fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

Brothers, for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ I beg of you all to drop these party-cries. There must be no cliques among you; you must regain your common temper and attitude.

This is the God to whom you owe your being in Christ Jesus, whom God has made our 'Wisdom,' that is, our righteousness and consecration and redemption;

I determined among you to be ignorant of everything except Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ the crucified.

The foundation is laid, namely Jesus Christ, and no one can lay any other.

You may have thousands to superintend you in Christ, but you have not more than one father. It was I who in Christ Jesus became your father by means of the gospel.

To ensure this, I am sending you Timotheus, my beloved and trustworthy son in the Lord; he will remind you of those methods in Christ Jesus which I teach everywhere in every church.

by the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ; I have met with you in spirit, and by the power of our Lord Jesus

I have consigned that individual to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, in order that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord Jesus.

Some of you were once like that; but you washed yourselves clean, you were consecrated, you were justified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

(So-called gods there may be, in heaven or on earth ??as indeed there are plenty of them, both gods and 'lords' ??6 but for us there is one God, the Father, from whom all comes, and for whom we exist; one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom all exists, and by whom we exist.)

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not the work I have accomplished in the Lord?

I passed on to you what I received from the Lord himself, namely, that on the night he was betrayed the Lord Jesus took a loaf,

so I tell you now, that no one is speaking in the Spirit of God when he cries, 'Cursed be Jesus,' and that no one can say, 'Jesus is Lord,' except in the holy Spirit.

(Not a day but I am at death's door! I swear it by my pride in you, brothers, through Christ Jesus our Lord.)

The victory is ours, thank God! He makes it ours by our Lord Jesus Christ.

The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you.

My love be with you all in Christ Jesus.' [Amen.]