While Jews are demanding spectacular signs and Greeks are searching for philosophy,

we are preaching the Christ who was crucified -- a message that is a trap-stick to the Jews and nonsense to the Greeks,

but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks alike, the Christ who is God's power and God's wisdom.

To the Jews I have become like a Jew for the winning of Jews; to men under the law, like one under the law, though I am not under the law myself, to win the men under the law;

Stop being stumbling blocks to Jews or Greeks or to the church of God,

For by one Spirit all of us, Jews or Greeks, slaves or freemen, have been baptized into one body, and were all imbued with one Spirit.