{ "apiVersion": "v1", "kind": "Chapter", "metadata": { "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z", "language": "en", "book": "1-corinthians", "chapter": 1 }, "data": { "n": 1, "bookSlug": "1-corinthians", "bookCode": "1CO", "refId": "", "title": "", "translation": null, "segments": [], "lines": [], "paragraphs": [{ "n": 1, "refId": "1CO-1:1", "verseRef": "1CO.1.1", "text": "Paul, called [to be] an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother," },{ "n": 2, "refId": "1CO-1:2", "verseRef": "1CO.1.2", "text": "unto the church of God which is at Corinth, [even] them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called [to be] saints, with all that call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, their [Lord] and ours:" },{ "n": 3, "refId": "1CO-1:3", "verseRef": "1CO.1.3", "text": "Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ." },{ "n": 4, "refId": "1CO-1:4", "verseRef": "1CO.1.4", "text": "I thank my God always concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus;" },{ "n": 5, "refId": "1CO-1:5", "verseRef": "1CO.1.5", "text": "that in everything ye were enriched in him, in all utterance and all knowledge;" },{ "n": 6, "refId": "1CO-1:6", "verseRef": "1CO.1.6", "text": "even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:" },{ "n": 7, "refId": "1CO-1:7", "verseRef": "1CO.1.7", "text": "so that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ;" },{ "n": 8, "refId": "1CO-1:8", "verseRef": "1CO.1.8", "text": "who shall also confirm you unto the end, [that ye be] unreproveable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ." },{ "n": 9, "refId": "1CO-1:9", "verseRef": "1CO.1.9", "text": "God is faithful, through whom ye were called into the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord." },{ "n": 10, "refId": "1CO-1:10", "verseRef": "1CO.1.10", "text": "Now I beseech you, brethren, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing and [that] there be no divisions among you; but [that] ye be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment." },{ "n": 11, "refId": "1CO-1:11", "verseRef": "1CO.1.11", "text": "For it hath been signified unto me concerning you, my brethren, by them [that are of the household] of Chloe, that there are contentions among you." },{ "n": 12, "refId": "1CO-1:12", "verseRef": "1CO.1.12", "text": "Now this I mean, that each one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos: and I of Cephas; and I of Christ." },{ "n": 13, "refId": "1CO-1:13", "verseRef": "1CO.1.13", "text": "Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized into the name of Paul?" },{ "n": 14, "refId": "1CO-1:14", "verseRef": "1CO.1.14", "text": "I thank God that I baptized none of you, save Crispus and Gaius;" },{ "n": 15, "refId": "1CO-1:15", "verseRef": "1CO.1.15", "text": "lest any man should say that ye were baptized into my name." },{ "n": 16, "refId": "1CO-1:16", "verseRef": "1CO.1.16", "text": "And I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides, I know not whether I baptized any other." },{ "n": 17, "refId": "1CO-1:17", "verseRef": "1CO.1.17", "text": "For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not in wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made void." },{ "n": 18, "refId": "1CO-1:18", "verseRef": "1CO.1.18", "text": "For the word of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us who are saved it is the power of God." },{ "n": 19, "refId": "1CO-1:19", "verseRef": "1CO.1.19", "text": "For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And the discernment of the discerning will I bring to nought." },{ "n": 20, "refId": "1CO-1:20", "verseRef": "1CO.1.20", "text": "Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?" },{ "n": 21, "refId": "1CO-1:21", "verseRef": "1CO.1.21", "text": "For seeing that in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom knew not God, it was God`s good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save them that believe." },{ "n": 22, "refId": "1CO-1:22", "verseRef": "1CO.1.22", "text": "Seeing that Jews ask for signs, and Greeks seek after wisdom:" },{ "n": 23, "refId": "1CO-1:23", "verseRef": "1CO.1.23", "text": "but we preach Christ crucified, unto Jews a stumblingblock, and unto Gentiles foolishness;" },{ "n": 24, "refId": "1CO-1:24", "verseRef": "1CO.1.24", "text": "but unto them that are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God." },{ "n": 25, "refId": "1CO-1:25", "verseRef": "1CO.1.25", "text": "Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men." },{ "n": 26, "refId": "1CO-1:26", "verseRef": "1CO.1.26", "text": "For behold your calling, brethren, that not many wise after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, [are called]:" },{ "n": 27, "refId": "1CO-1:27", "verseRef": "1CO.1.27", "text": "but God chose the foolish things of the world, that he might put to shame them that are wise; and God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong;" },{ "n": 28, "refId": "1CO-1:28", "verseRef": "1CO.1.28", "text": "and the base things of the world, and the things that are despised, did God choose, [yea] and the things that are not, that he might bring to nought the things that are:" },{ "n": 29, "refId": "1CO-1:29", "verseRef": "1CO.1.29", "text": "that no flesh should glory before God." },{ "n": 30, "refId": "1CO-1:30", "verseRef": "1CO.1.30", "text": "But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who was made unto us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:" },{ "n": 31, "refId": "1CO-1:31", "verseRef": "1CO.1.31", "text": "that, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord." } ] }, "links": { "self": "/v1/library/books/1-corinthians/chapters/1", "book": "/v1/library/books/1-corinthians/", "chapters": "/v1/library/books/1-corinthians/chapters/", "library": "/v1/library/", "schema": "/v1/schema/book/" } }