8  Already you have all you want! Already you have become rich! Quite apart from us you have become kings! Indeed, I wish that you had become kings, so that we might be kings with you! " 9  For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, as though sentenced to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels and to mortals. 10  We are fools for the sake of Christ, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in hono

“ 1  Think of us as servants of Christ and stewards of God’s mysteries. 2  Moreover, it is required of stewards that they should be found trustworthy. 3  But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by any human court. I do not even judge myself. 4  I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me. 5  Therefore do not pronounce judgement before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to l

“ 5  What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you came to believe, as the Lord assigned to each. 6  I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. 7  So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. 8  The one who plants and the one who waters have a common purpose, and each will receive wages according to the labour of each. 9  For we are God’s servants, working together; you are God’s field, God’s bu

“ 14  And we have seen and do testify that the Father has sent his Son as the Savior of the world. 15  God abides in those who confess that Jesus is the Son of God, and they abide in God. 16  So we have known and believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them. 17  Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness on the day of judgement, because as he is, so are we in this world. 18  There

“ 6  Yet among the mature we do speak wisdom, though it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to perish. 7  But we speak God’s wisdom, secret and hidden, which God decreed before the ages for our glory. 8  None of the rulers of this age understood this; for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9  But, as it is written, ‘What no eye has seen, nor ear heard,      nor the human heart conceived,  what God has prepared fo

1 When I came to you, brothers and sisters, I did not come proclaiming the mystery of God to you in lofty words or wisdom. 2  For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified. 3  And I came to you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling. 4  My speech and my proclamation were not with plausible words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power, 5  so that your faith might rest not on human wisdom but on the power of God” 1

“ 26  Consider your own call, brothers and sisters: not many of you were wise by human standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. 27  But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; 28  God chose what is low and despised in the world, things that are not, to reduce to nothing things that are, 29  so that no one might boast in the presence of God. 30  He is the source of your life in C

“ 18  For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19  For it is written, ‘I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,     and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.’ 20  Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21  For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, God d

“ 10  Now I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you should be in agreement and that there should be no divisions among you, but that you should be united in the same mind and the same purpose. 11  For it has been reported to me by Chloe’s people that there are quarrels among you, my brothers and sisters. 12  What I mean is that each of you says, ‘I belong to Paul’, or ‘I belong to Apollos’, or ‘I belong to Cephas’, or ‘I belo

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 that is in Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, together with all those who in every place call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours: 3  Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 4  I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that has been given

15  Perhaps the reason Onesimus was separated from you for a little while was that you might have him back forever— 16  no longer as a slave, but better than a slave, as a dear brother. He is very dear to me but even dearer to you, both as a fellow man and as a brother in the Lord. 17  So if you consider me a partner, welcome him as you would welcome me. 18  If he has done you any wrong or owes you anything, charge it to me. 19  I, Paul, am writing this with my own hand. I wi