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I will be his Father, and he will be My son. And I will never remove My loving devotion from him as I removed it from your predecessor.

¹ Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,

² To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be holy, together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours:

³ Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

⁴ I always thank my God for you because of the grace He has given you in Christ Jesus.

⁵ For in Him you have been enriched in every way, in all speech and all knowledge,

⁶ because our testimony about Christ was confirmed in you.

⁷ Therefore you do not lack any spiritual gift as you eagerly await the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁸ He will sustain you to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁹ God, who has called you into fellowship with His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, is faithful.

¹⁰ I appeal to you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree together, so that there may be no divisions among you and that you may be united in mind and conviction.

¹¹ My brothers, some from Chloe’s household have informed me that there are quarrels among you.

¹² What I mean is this: Individuals among you are saying, “I follow Paul,” “I follow Apollos,” “I follow Cephas,” or “I follow Christ.”

Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Were you baptized into the name of Paul?

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with words of wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.

²² Jews demand signs and Greeks search for wisdom,

²³ but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,

²⁴ but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.

³⁰ It is because of Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God: our righteousness, holiness, and redemption.

³¹ Therefore, as it is written: “Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.”

For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.

None of the rulers of this age understood it. For if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

“For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.