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The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians

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(Acts 18:1–11; 2 Corinthians 1:1–2)
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I, Paul, am writing this letter. Sosthenes, our fellow believer, is with me as I write this letter to you. God appointed me to be an apostle of Messiah Jesus, and God chose me to serve him.
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This letter is to the church of God in Corinth, to those whom Messiah Jesus has set apart for God, with everyone else, everywhere, who calls on God to save them in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours.
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May God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ love you and give you peace.

Thanksgiving

(Philippians 1:3–11; Colossians 1:3–14)
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I thank God every day for you because of the many costly gifts that Messiah Jesus has given to you because he loves you.
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Messiah has given you so many things. He helped you in all your speaking and in all your knowledge.
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You yourselves are the proof that these statements about Messiah are true.
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That is the reason you do not lack any gift from the Spirit of God while you wait for the day when God will make the Lord Jesus Christ known and will show him to everyone.
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God will also make you strong so you can serve him to the very end, so you will bring no shame upon yourselves on the day that our Lord Jesus Christ returns to earth.
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God is keeping his promise to do that. God called you, so you can know and love his Son, Jesus Christ, who is our Lord.

Unity in the Church

(Psalm 133:1–3; Ephesians 4:1–16)
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My brothers and sisters, I beg you by the authority of Jesus, that you come to an agreement and that you settle your disagreements, and that you no longer divide yourselves into groups. Learn to see things from the same point of view and to work together to accomplish the same task.
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Those in Chloe’s house have reported to me that there are divisions and disagreements among some of you.
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This is the problem. Each of you claims to have loyalty to one leader or another. One says, “I am loyal to Paul.” Another says, “I am loyal to Apollos.” Someone else says, “I am loyal to Peter.” And the last one says, “But I am loyal to Messiah.”
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But Messiah does not divide his loyalty. Paul was not crucified for you. The person who baptized you did not baptize you in the name of Paul.
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I thank God that I baptized only a few people there; among them I baptized Crispus and Gaius.
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It would not be true that I baptized them in my name.
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Now I remember that I also baptized the household of Stephanas, but other than those people, I do not remember baptizing anyone else in Corinth.
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The most important work Messiah sent me to do was to tell everyone the good news about him, not to baptize people. I did not proclaim the good news using human wisdom or clever words so instead I could use the power of the work of Messiah dying on the cross.

The Message of the Cross

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For those who are dead to the things of God cannot understand him. Messiah died for them on the cross, but this message is pointless to them. However, for those of us whom God has rescued and brought to life, this message allows God to powerfully work in us.
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A prophet wrote in the scriptures: “The wisdom of those who think they are wise, I will destroy, and I will make the brilliant plans of the intelligent to be utter failures.”
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Where are the wise people of this world? They did not understand anything about God. Neither did the scholars, nor those skilled in debate. For God has shown that everything they call wisdom is really foolishness.
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In the wisdom of God, unbelievers did not come to know God by their own wisdom. So God was pleased to use a message that they thought was foolish. That is the message we proclaimed and it had power to save all who believe it.
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The Jews wanted public displays of miraculous power before they would follow anyone. The Greeks are looking for wisdom through new and fresh ways of thinking about spiritual ideas.
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But we proclaim a message about Messiah, who died on a cross. For the Jews this message about the cross of Messiah is something they cannot receive because death on a cross brings a curse with it. To the Greeks it is too foolish to deserve their attention.
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But for us, we whom God called so we can know him, that message shows that God acted powerfully and wisely by sending Messiah to die for us. The good news is not tied to any race or philosophy; in Messiah there is no distinction between Jews and all the other nations and races on earth.
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For the things of God that appear foolish are really wiser that the most brilliant ideas human beings can imagine. And the things of God that appear weakest are stronger than the strongest and greatest human being who ever lived.

Wisdom from God

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Brothers and sisters, look at the kind of person you were when God called you. See how unimportant you were. You were not the wisest of people. You were not important enough for people to obey you. You had no important ancestors.
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Instead, God chose the things that made no sense to unbelievers so that they would stop praising themselves. God chose to use things that were weak to put to shame the things they believed were so strong.
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God chose what the unbelievers think is of no importance in order to show that the things they consider to be important have no value.
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God did this so that no human being could have any reason to praise himself and he should offer God all praise instead.
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Because of what God has done, you are now joined to Messiah Jesus, who has made clear to us how wise God is. He has put us right with God, he has set us apart for God, and he has rescued us and brought us to safety.
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So, as the scriptures say: “The one who praises himself should praise himself only in what the Lord has done for him.”

Gruß

(Apostelgeschichte 18,1-11; 2. Korinther 1,1-2)
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Paulus berufener Apostel Jesu Christi durch den Willen Gottes, und Sosthenes, der Bruder,
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an die Gemeinde Gottes zu Korinth, die Geheiligten in Christus Jesus, die berufenen Heiligen samt allen, welche den Namen unseres Herrn Jesus Christus anrufen an jeglichem Orte, dem ihrigen wie dem unseren.
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Gnade sei euch und Friede von Gott, unserm Vater, und dem Herrn Jesus Christus!

Geistliche Gaben in Korinth

(Philipper 1,3-11; Kolosser 1,3-14)
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Ich sage meinem Gott allezeit Dank um euretwillen für die Gnade Gottes, die euch in Christus Jesus geschenkt ist;
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dass ihr in allem durch ihn reich geworden seid, in aller Lehre und in aller Erkenntnis.
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Wie denn das Zeugnis von Christus unter euch befestigt worden ist;
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so dass es euch an keiner Gnade mangelt, die ihr die Offenbarung unseres Herrn Jesus Christus erwartet,
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welcher euch auch bis an´s Ende festigen wird, so dass ihr am Tage der Ankunft unseres Herrn Jesus Christus unsträflich sein werdet.
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Getreu ist Gott, durch welchen ihr zur Gemeinschaft seines Sohnes Jesus Christus, unseres Herrn, berufen seid.

Sektierertum ist Sünde

(Psalm 133,1-3; Epheser 4,1-16)
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Ich bitte aber euch, Brüder! bei dem Namen unseres Herrn Jesus Christus, dass ihr alle die nämliche Sprache führet, und keine Spaltungen unter euch seien; dass ihr vielmehr vollkommen seiet in demselben Sinne und in derselben Meinung.
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Es ist mir nämlich über euch, meine Brüder! von den Angehörigen der Chloe bedeutet worden, dass Streitigkeiten unter euch sind.
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Ich meine aber dies, dass ein jeder von euch sagt: Ich bin des Paulus; ich aber des Apollo; ich hinwieder des Kephas; ich aber bin Christi.
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Ist Christus geteilt? Ist etwa Paulus für euch gekreuzigt worden? Oder seid ihr auf den Namen des Paulus getauft worden?
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Ich sage Gott Dank, dass ich niemanden von euch getauft habe, als den Krispus und Kajus;
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damit nicht jemand sagen könne, ihr seiet auf meinen Namen getauft.
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Doch habe ich auch des Stephanas Haus getauft; außerdem bin ich mir nicht bewusst, einen andern getauft zu haben.
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Denn Christus hat mich nicht gesandt zu taufen, sondern das Evangelium zu verkünden; doch nicht mit Wortweisheit, damit das Kreuz Christi nicht seiner Kraft beraubt werde.

Christus, die Kraft und Weisheit Gottes

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Denn das Wort vom Kreuze ist zwar denen, die verloren gehen, Torheit; denen aber, die selig werden, das ist uns, ist es Gottes Kraft.
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Denn es steht geschrieben: zu Grunde richten werde ich die Weisheit der Weisen, und die Klugheit der Klugen werde ich verwerfen.
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Wo ist ein Weiser? Wo ein Schriftgelehrter? Wo ein Forscher dieser Welt? Hat Gott nicht die Weisheit dieser Welt zur Torheit gemacht?
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Denn weil die Welt durch ihre Weisheit Gott nicht in seiner Weisheit erkannt, so hat es Gott gefallen, durch die Torheit der Verkündigung diejenigen selig zu machen, welche glauben.
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Denn die Juden fordern Wunderzeichen, und die Griechen suchen Weisheit;
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wir aber verkünden Christus, den Gekreuzigten, den Juden ein Anstoß, den Heiden aber eine Torheit,
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den Berufenen dagegen, Juden sowohl als Griechen, Christus Gottes Kraft und Gottes Weisheit;
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weil das Törichte, das von Gott kommt, die Weisheit der Menschen übertrifft; und das Schwache, das von Gott kommt, mehr vermag, als die Menschen.

Herrlichkeit nur im Herrn

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Denn sehet eure Berufung an, Brüder! es sind nicht viele Weise nach dem Fleische, nicht viele Mächtige, nicht viele Vornehme,
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sondern was vor der Welt töricht ist, hat Gott auserwählt, um die Weisen zu beschämen; und das vor der Welt Schwache hat Gott auserwählt, um das Starke zu Schanden zu machen;
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und das vor der Welt Unangesehene, und das Verachtete, und das, was nichts ist, hat Gott auserwählt, um das, was etwas ist, zunichte zu machen,
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damit kein Mensch sich vor ihm rühme.
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Aus ihm aber seid ihr in Christus Jesus, welcher uns zur Weisheit von Gott geworden ist, zur Gerechtigkeit, Heiligung und Erlösung,
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damit, wie geschrieben steht, wer sich rühmt, sich im Herrn rühme.