1Paul, a called apostle of Yeshua(Jesus) Messiah(Christ) through the thelema(will) of God, and Sosthenes the brother,
2to the ekklesia(called-out community) of God that is in Corinth, to those having been made hagio(holy) in Messiah(Christ) Yeshua(Jesus), called hagioi(holy ones), together with all those calling upon the name of our Lord Yeshua(Jesus) Messiah(Christ) in every place — both theirs and ours:
3charis(grace) to you and eirene(peace) from God our Father and the Lord Yeshua(Jesus) Messiah(Christ).
4I give thanks to my God always concerning you, for the charis(grace) of God given to you in Messiah(Christ) Yeshua(Jesus),
5that in everything you were enriched in Him, in all logos(word) and all gnosis(knowledge),
6just as the testimony of Messiah(Christ) was confirmed in you,
7so that you are not lacking in any charisma(grace-gift), as you eagerly await the revelation of our Lord Yeshua(Jesus) Messiah(Christ),
8who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Yeshua(Jesus) Messiah(Christ).
9God is faithful, through whom you were called into koinonia(fellowship, participation) with His Son Yeshua(Jesus) Messiah(Christ) our Lord.
10Now I appeal to you, brothers, through the name of our Lord Yeshua(Jesus) Messiah(Christ), that you all say the same thing and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be restored in the same nous(intellect, spiritual domain) and in the same judgment.
11For it has been made clear to me concerning you, my brothers, by those of Chloe's household, that there are quarrels among you.
12I mean this: each of you says, "I am of Paul," or "I am of Apollos," or "I am of Cephas," or "I am of Messiah(Christ)."
13Is Messiah(Christ) divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?
14I give thanks to God that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius,
15so that no one should say that you were baptized in my name.
16Now I also baptized the household of Stephanas; beyond that I do not know whether I baptized anyone else.
17For Messiah(Christ) did not send me to baptize but to proclaim the good news — not in sophia(wisdom) of logos(speech), lest the stauros(cross) of Messiah(Christ) be emptied.
18For the logos(message) of the stauros(cross) is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the dynamis(power) of God.
19For it is written: "I will destroy the sophia(wisdom) of the wise, and the intelligence of the intelligent I will set aside."
20Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the sophia(wisdom) of this world?
21For since in the sophia(wisdom) of God the world did not know God through sophia(wisdom), God was pleased through the foolishness of proclamation to save those who believe.
22For indeed Jews ask for signs and Greeks seek sophia(wisdom),
23but we proclaim Messiah(Christ) crucified — a skandalon(stumbling-block) to Jews and foolishness to Greeks,
24but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Messiah(Christ) the dynamis(power) of God and the sophia(wisdom) of God.
25Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
26For look at your calling, brothers — not many wise according to sarx(flesh), not many powerful, not many of noble birth were called;
27but God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong,
28and God chose the ignoble and despised things of the world — the things that are not — to nullify the things that are,
29so that no sarx(flesh) may boast before God.
30But from Him you are in Messiah(Christ) Yeshua(Jesus), who became sophia(wisdom) to us from God — both dikaiosyne(righteousness) and hagiasmos(sanctification) and apolytrosis(redemption, ransom-release) —
31so that, just as it is written: "Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord."