Today’s
Reading: 1Corinthians 1 – 3 (KJV)
1Corinthians 1
1Co 1:1 Paul called to
be an apostle of Jesus Christ through
the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,
1Co 1:2 Unto the church of God which is at Corinth,
to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to
be saints, with all that in every place
call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:
1Co 1:3 Grace be
unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from
the Lord Jesus Christ.
1Co 1:4 I thank my God always on your behalf, for the
grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ;
1Co 1:5 That in every thing ye are enriched by him,
in all utterance, and in all knowledge;
1Co 1:6 Even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed
in you:
1Co 1:7 So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting
for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:
1Co 1:8 Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be
blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1Co 1:9 God is
faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ
our Lord.
1Co 1:10 Now I beseech you, brethren, by 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 perfectly joined together in the same
mind and in the same judgment.
1Co 1:11 For it hath been declared unto me of you, my
brethren, by them which are of the house
of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.
1Co 1:12 Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos;
and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.
1Co 1:13 Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for
you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?
1Co 1:14 I thank God that I baptized none of you, but Crispus and Gaius;
1Co 1:15 Lest any should say that I had baptized in
mine own name.
1Co 1:16 And I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides, I know not whether I baptized any
other.
1Co 1:17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to
preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be
made of none effect.
1Co 1:18 For the preaching of the cross is to them
that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
1Co 1:19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom
of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
1Co 1:20 Where is
the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made
foolish the wisdom of this world?
1Co 1:21 For after that in the wisdom of God the world
by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save
them that believe.
1Co 1:22 For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks
seek after wisdom:
1Co 1:23 But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews
a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;
1Co 1:24 But unto them which are called, both Jews and
Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
1Co 1:25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than
men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
1Co 1:26 For ye see your calling, brethren, how that
not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
1Co 1:27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the
world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to
confound the things which are mighty;
1Co 1:28 And base things of the world, and things
which are despised, hath God chosen, yea,
and things which are not, to bring to naught things that are:
1Co 1:29 That no flesh should glory in his presence.
1Co 1:30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God
is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
1Co 1:31 That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
1Corinthians 2
1Co 2:1 And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not
with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring
unto you the testimony of God.
1Co 2:2 For I determined not to know any thing among
you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
1Co 2:3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear,
and in much trembling.
1Co 2:4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but
in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
1Co 2:5 That your faith should not stand in the
wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
1Co 2:6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are
perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world,
that come to naught:
1Co 2:7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom,
which God ordained before the world unto our glory:
1Co 2:8 Which none of the princes of this world knew:
for had they known it, they would not
have crucified the Lord of glory.
1Co 2:9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor
ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God
hath prepared for them that love him.
1Co 2:10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
1Co 2:11 For what man knoweth
the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things
of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
1Co 2:12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the
world, but the Spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are
freely given to us of God.
1Co 2:13 Which things also we speak, not in the words
which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost
teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
1Co 2:14 But the natural man receiveth
not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither
can he know them, because they are
spiritually discerned.
1Co 2:15 But he that is spiritual judgeth
all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
1Co 2:16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that
he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
1Corinthians 3
1Co 3:1 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as
unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even
as unto babes in Christ.
1Co 3:2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat:
for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
1Co 3:3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is
among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as
men?
1Co 3:4 For while one saith,
I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?
1Co 3:5 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but
ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?
1Co 3:6 I have planted, Apollos
watered; but God gave the increase.
1Co 3:7 So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth;
but God that giveth the increase.
1Co 3:8 Now he that planteth
and he that watereth are one: and every man shall
receive his own reward according to his own labour.
1Co 3:9 For we are labourers together with God: ye
are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.
1Co 3:10 According to the grace of God which is given
unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the
foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let
every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.
1Co 3:11 For other foundation can no man lay than that
is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
1Co 3:12 Now if any man build upon this foundation
gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
1Co 3:13 Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for
the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire
shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.
1Co 3:14 If any man’s work abide which he hath built
thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
1Co 3:15 If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall
suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
1Co 3:16 Know ye not that ye are the
temple of God, and that the Spirit of
God dwelleth in you?
1Co 3:17 If any man defile the temple of God, him
shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
1Co 3:18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among
you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become
a fool, that he may be wise.
1Co 3:19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness
with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in
their own craftiness.
1Co 3:20 And again, The Lord knoweth
the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.
1Co 3:21 Therefore let no man glory in men. For all
things are yours;
1Co 3:22 Whether Paul, or Apollos,
or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things
present, or things to come; all are yours;
1Co 3:23 And ye are Christ’s; and Christ is God’s.
