MODERN LITERAL VERSION

1:1 Paul, a called apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God and Sosthenes the brother,
1:2 to the congregation* of God which is in Corinth– those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called holy-ones, with all who are calling upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:
1:3 grace to you* and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

1:4 I am always giving-thanks to my God concerning you*, for the grace of God which was given to you* in Christ Jesus;
1:5 that you* were enriched in him in everything, in all speech and all knowledge;
1:6 just-as the testimony of Christ was steadfast in you*;
1:7 so-that you* are not lacking of any gift*; waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ,
1:8 who will also confirm you* to the end, so that you * are irreproachable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1:9 God is faithful, through whom you* were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

1:10 Now brethren, I am encouraging you* through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that* you* all should speak the same thing and there should be no splits among you*, but you* should be perfected together in the same mind and in the same viewpoint.
1:11 For* it has been indicated to me concerning you*, my brethren, by the household of Chloe, that strifes are among you*.
1:12 Now I am saying this, that each one of you* says, I am indeed of Paul! I am indeed of Apollos! I am indeed of Cephas! I am indeed of Christ!

1:13 Has Christ been divided? Paul was not crucified on your* behalf, was he? Or were you* immersed* into the name of Paul?
1:14 I thank God that I immersed* none of you* except Crispus and Gaius;
1:15 that* no one might say that you* were immersed* into my name.
1:16 And I also immersed* the household of Stephanas; furthermore, I do not know if I immersed* any other.
1:17 For* Christ sent me not to immerse*, but to proclaim the good-news; not in wisdom of words, (that* the cross of Christ might not be made void).

1:18 For* the word of the cross is indeed foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved, it is the power of God.
1:19 For* it has been written, ‘I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and I will reject the understanding of the intelligent.' {Is. 29:14, Ps. 33:10}
1:20 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this world? Has God not made the wisdom of the world foolish?
1:21 For* since, in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know God, it delighted God through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.
1:22 Since Jews ask for a sign and Greeks seek wisdom;
1:23 but we preach Christ crucified, indeed an offense to the Jews but foolishness to the Greeks;
1:24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God.
1:25 Because the foolish things of God are wiser than men, and the weakness of God is mightier than men.

1:26 For* you* see your calling brethren, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble.
1:27 But God chose the foolish things of the world, that* he might shame the wise, and God chose the weak things of the world, that* he might shame the strong;
1:28 and God chose the ignoble things of the world and the things that are scorned and the things that are not, in order that he might do-away-with the things that are;
1:29 *that no flesh might boast before God.
1:30 But you* are from him, in Christ Jesus, who has become to us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption from God;
1:31 that*, as it has been written, ‘He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.' {Jer. 9:24}