One man says "I belong to Paul;" another "I belong to Apollos;"
a third "I belong to Peter;" a fourth "I belong to Christ."
001:013 Is the Christ in fragments? Is it Paul who was crucified on
your behalf? Or were you baptized to be Paul's adherents?
001:014 I thank God that I did not baptize any of you except
Crispus and Gaius--
001:015 for fear people should say that you were baptized to
be my adherents.
001:016 I did, however, baptize Stephanas' household also:
but I do not think that I baptized any one else.
001:017 Christ did not send me to baptize, but to proclaim the Good News;
and not in merely wise words--lest the Cross of Christ should
be deprived of its power.
001:018 For the Message of the Cross is foolishness to those who are on
the way to perdition, but it is the power of God to those whom
He is saving.
001:019 For so it stands written, "I will exhibit the nothingness of
the wisdom of the wise, and the intelligence of the intelligent
I will bring to nought."
001:020 Where is your wise man? Where your expounder of the Law? Where your
investigator of the questions of this present age?
Has not God shown the world's wisdom to be utter foolishness?
001:021 For after the world by its wisdom--as God in His wisdom had ordained--
had failed to gain the knowledge of God, God was pleased,
by the apparent foolishness of the Message which we preach,
to save those who accepted it.
001:022 Seeing that Jews demand miracles, and Greeks go in search of wisdom,
001:023 while we proclaim a Christ who has been crucified--to the Jews
a stumbling-block, to Gentiles foolishness,
001:024 but to those who have received the Call, whether Jews