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          DASV: 1 Corinthians 1    

1 Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will
of God, along with Sosthenes, our brother,
2 To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in
Christ Jesus, called to be saints, along with all those in
every place who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
their Lord and ours:
3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ.

4 I thank my God always concerning you, for the grace of God
that was given you in Christ Jesus.
5 For in everything you were enriched in him, in every kind of
speech and all knowledge--
6 just as the testimony of Christ has been confirmed among you--
7 so that you are lacking in no spiritual gift, as you
expectantly wait for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ.
8 He will also establish you to the end, so that you will be
blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9 God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship
of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

10 Now I urge you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
that you be in agreement with each other and that there be
no divisions among you; and that you be perfectly united in
the same mind and in the same purpose.
11 For it has been reported to me by those who are members of Chloe's
household, concerning you, my brothers, that there are quarrels
among you.
12 Now what I mean is this, that each of you says, "I am a follower
of Paul," or "I am a follower of Apollos," or "I am a follower
of Cephas," or "I am a follower of Christ."
13 Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you
baptized in the name of Paul?
14 I thank God that I baptized none of you, except Crispus and
Gaius,
15 so that no one can say that you were baptized in my name.
16 I also baptized the household of Stephanas; besides those,
I do not think I baptized anyone else.
17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel,
not in clever words, so that the cross of Christ would be
emptied of its impact.
18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who perish;
but to us who are saved it is the power of God.
19 For it is written,
      "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
           and the shrewdness of the intelligent I will negate."
20 Where is the wise? Where is the religious scholar? Where
is the insightful debater of this age? Has God not made foolish
the wisdom of the world?
21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom
did not know God, he was pleased through the foolishness of
the preaching to save those who believe.
22 For the Jews demand a sign, and Greeks pursue wisdom,
23 but we preach Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling block,
and to Gentiles foolishness;
24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ
is the power of God and the wisdom of God.
25 For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom; and
the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.
26 Consider your own calling, brothers, that not many of you were
wise when evaluated by human standards, not many mighty, and not
many of noble birth.
27 But God chose what the world considers foolish to put to
shame the wise; and God chose what the world considers weak,
to put to shame the things that are strong.
28 God chose the things considered low and despised by the world,
even the things regarded as nothing, that he might bring to
nothing the things considered to be something,
29 so that no one would be able to boast before God.
30 And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who was made
for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification
and redemption,
31 so that, just as it is written,
      "Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord."

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