1 Corinthians 4:10 — 1 Corinthians 6:1

10 We are ^1afools because of Christ, but you are ^bprudent in Christ; we are ^2cweak, but you are strong; you are ³glorious, but we are ^ddishonored.

11 Until the present hour we both ^ahunger and thirst, and are naked and ^bbuffeted and wander without a home;

12 And we labor, ^aworking with our own ^bhands. Reviled we ^cbless; ^dpersecuted we endure;

13 ¹Defamed we ²exhort. We have become as the ^3aoffscouring of the world, the ³scum of all things, until now.

14 It is not to ^ashame you that I write these things but to admonish you as my beloved ^bchildren.

15 For though you have ten thousand ¹guides in Christ, yet you do not have many ^2afathers; for ^bin Christ Jesus I have ^cbegotten you through the ^dgospel.

16 I ¹exhort you therefore, Become ^aimitators of me.

17 Because of this I have sent ^aTimothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful ^bchild in the Lord, who will remind you of my ¹ways which are in Christ, even as I teach ²everywhere in every ^cchurch.

18 Now some have become ^apuffed up as though I were not coming to you.

19 But I will ^acome to you shortly, if the Lord ^bwills, and I will ascertain not the speech of those who are puffed up but the power.

20 For the ^1akingdom of God is not in speech but in ^bpower.

21 What do you want? Should I ^acome to you with a ¹rod or in love and a ^2bspirit of ^cmeekness?

CHAPTER 5

1 It is actually reported that there is ^1afornication among you, and such fornication that does not even occur among the Gentiles, that someone has his ^2bstepmother.

2 And you are ^apuffed up? And have you not rather ^bmourned, that the one who has done this deed might be ^1cremoved from your midst?

3 For I, on my part, though being absent in the body but present ¹in the ^aspirit, have already judged, as if being present, him who has thus done this,

4 ¹In the ^aname of our Lord Jesus, when you and ²my ^bspirit have been assembled, ¹with the ^cpower of our Lord Jesus,

5 ¹To ^adeliver such a one to ^bSatan for the ²destruction of his ³flesh, ⁴that his spirit may be saved in the ^5cday of the Lord.

6 Your ^1aboasting is not good. Do you not know that a ²little ^3bleaven leavens the whole lump?

7 Purge out the old leaven that you may be a ¹new lump, even as you are unleavened; for our ^2aPassover, Christ, also has been sacrificed.

8 So then let us ^akeep the ¹feast, not with old ^bleaven, neither with the leaven of ^cmalice and evil, but with the ^dunleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

9 I wrote to you in my letter ^anot to ¹mingle with fornicators,

10 But not altogether with the ^afornicators of this world, or with the covetous and rapacious, or idolaters, since then you would have to go ^bout of the world.

11 But now I have written to you not to mingle with anyone who is called a ^abrother, if he is a ¹fornicator or a covetous man or an ^bidolater or a reviler or a drunkard or a rapacious man, with such a one ^cnot even to eat.

12 For what have I to do with judging those who are ^aoutside the church? Do you not ^bjudge those who are within the church?

13 But those who are outside, God will judge. ^1aRemove the evil man from among yourselves.

CHAPTER 6

1 Does any one of you who has a ¹case against another dare to be judged before the ²unrighteous and not before the saints?

1 Corinthians 3:18 — 1 Corinthians 4:9

18 Let no one ^1adeceive himself; if anyone ^2bthinks that he is ^cwise among you in this age, let him ³become foolish that he may ⁴become wise.

19 For the wisdom of this world is ^afoolishness with God; for it is written, ^b“He grasps the wise in their craftiness”;

20 And again, ^a“The Lord knows the reasonings of the wise, that they are ¹vain.”

21 So then let no one ^aboast in men, for ^ball things are yours,

22 Whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or ^alife or death or things present or things to come; ¹all are yours,

23 But you are ^aChrist’s, and Christ is ^bGod’s.

CHAPTER 4

1 A man should ¹account us ²in this way, as ^3aservants of Christ and ^4bstewards of the ^cmysteries of God.

2 ¹Here, furthermore, it is sought in stewards that one be found ^afaithful.

3 But to me it is a very small thing that I should be ^1aexamined by you or by ²man’s day; rather I do not even examine myself.

4 For I am conscious of nothing against myself; but I am not justified in this, but He who examines me is the Lord.

5 So then do not ^1ajudge anything ²before the time, until the Lord ^bcomes, who will both bring to light the ^chidden things of darkness and make ^dmanifest the counsels of the hearts, and then there will be ^epraise to each from God.

6 Now ¹these things, brothers, I have ²transferred in figure to myself and ^aApollos for your sakes, that you may learn in us the matter of not going beyond ³what has been written, that none of you may be ^bpuffed up on behalf of ^cone, against the other.

7 For ¹who distinguishes you? And what do you have that you did not ^areceive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though not having received it?

8 ¹Already you are filled; already you have become ^arich; you have reigned without us. And I would have it indeed that you did reign, that we also might reign with you.

9 For, I think, God has set forth us the apostles ¹last of all as ²doomed to ^adeath, because we have become a ^3bspectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.

1 Corinthians 2:11 — 1 Corinthians 3:17

11 For who among men knows the things of man, except the ^1aspirit of man which is in him? In the same way, the things of God also no one has known except the Spirit of God.

12 But we have ^1areceived not the spirit of the ^bworld but the ^cSpirit which is from God, that we may ^dknow the ^ethings which have been graciously given to us by God;

13 Which things also we speak, not in ^awords taught by human wisdom but in words ^btaught by the Spirit, ¹interpreting spiritual things ²with spiritual words.

14 ¹But a ^2asoulish man does ^bnot receive the ^3cthings of the Spirit of God, for they are ^dfoolishness to him and he is ⁴not able to know thembecause they are ^5ediscerned ⁶spiritually.

15 But the ^1aspiritual man discerns all things, but he himself is discerned by no one.

16 For who has known the ^amind of the Lord and will ^binstruct Him? But we ¹have the ^cmind of Christ.

CHAPTER 3

1 And I, brothers, was not able to speak to you as to ^1aspiritual men, but as to ^2bfleshy, as to ^3cinfants in Christ.

2 I ¹gave you ^2amilk to drink, not ²solid ^bfood, for you were ^cnot yet able to receive it. But ³neither yet now are you able,

3 For you are still ^afleshly. For if there is ^1bjealousy and ^cstrife among you, are you not fleshly and do you not walk ²according to the manner ofman?

4 For when someone says, ^aI am of Paul, and another, I of Apollos, are you not men of flesh?

5 What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? ^aMinisters through whom you believed, even as the Lord gave to ^beach one of them.

6 ^aI ¹planted, ^bApollos watered, but ^cGod caused the growth.

7 So then ¹neither is he who plants ^aanything nor he who waters, but God who causes the growth.

8 Now he who plants and he who waters are one, but ^aeach will receive his own ^1breward according to his own ^clabor.

9 For we are ¹God’s ^afellow workers; you are God’s ^2bcultivated land, God’s ^cbuilding.

10 According to the ^agrace of God given to me, as a wise ¹master builder I have ^blaid a ^cfoundation, and ^danother ^ebuilds upon it. But let each man ²take heed how he ^fbuilds upon it.

11 For ^1aanother foundation no one is able to lay besides ^bthat which is laid, which is Jesus ^cChrist.

12 ¹But if anyone builds upon the foundation ²gold, silver, precious stones, ³wood, grass, stubble,

13 The work of each will become ^amanifest; for ^1bthe day will declare it, because it is revealed by ^2cfire, and the fire itself will ^dprove each one’s work, of what sort it is.

14 If anyone’s ¹work which he has built upon the foundation remains, he will receive a ^2areward;

15 If anyone’s ¹work is consumed, he will suffer ²loss, but he himself will be ^3asaved, yet so as ⁴through ^bfire.

16 Do you not know that you are the ^1atemple of God, and that the ^bSpirit of God dwells in you?

17 If anyone ^1adestroys the temple of God, God will ²destroy him; for the temple of God is ³holy, and ⁴such are you.

1 Corinthians 1:19 — 1 Corinthians 2:10

19 For it is written, ^a“I will destroy the wisdom of the ^1bwise, and the understanding of those who understand I will set aside.”

20 Where is the ^awise? Where is the ^1bscribe? Where is the disputer of ^cthis age? Has not God made the wisdom of the world ^dfoolish?

21 For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know God, God ¹was well pleased through the ^afoolishness of the ²preaching to ^bsave those who believe.

22 For indeed Jews require ^1asigns and Greeks seek wisdom,

23 But we ^apreach ¹Christ ^bcrucified, to Jews a ^cstumbling block, and to Gentiles ^dfoolishness,

24 But to ¹those who are ^acalled, both ^bJews and Greeks, Christ the ^2cpower of God and the ^dwisdom of God.

25 Because the ^afoolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

26 For consider your calling, brothers, that there are not many ^awise according to flesh, not many powerful, not many ¹wellborn.

27 But God has ^1achosen the foolish things of the ^bworld that He might shame those who are wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the ^bworld that He might shame the things that are strong,

28 And the ¹lowborn things of the world and the ²despised things God has chosen, things which ^3aare not, that He might ^bbring to nought the ⁴things which are,

29 ¹So that no flesh may ^aboast before God.

30 But ^1aof Him you are ^bin Christ Jesus, who became ^cwisdom to us from God: both ^2drighteousness and ^esanctification and ^fredemption,

31 That as it is written, ^a“He who boasts, let him ^bboast in the Lord.”

CHAPTER 2

1 And I, when I ^acame to you, brothers, came not according to ¹excellence of ^bspeech or of wisdom, announcing to you the ^2cmystery of God.

2 For I did ¹not determine to know anything among you except ²Jesus ^aChrist, and ²this One ^bcrucified.

3 And I was with you in ^1aweakness and in ^2bfear and in much trembling;

4 And my ^aspeech and my proclamation were not in ¹persuasive words of wisdom but in demonstration of the ^bSpirit and of ^cpower,

5 In order that your faith would not ¹stand in the ²wisdom of men but in the ^apower of God.

6 But we do speak wisdom among those who are ^afull-grown, yet a ^bwisdom not of this age nor of the rulers of this age, who are being ^1cbrought to nought;

7 But we speak ¹God’s wisdom in a ^amystery, the wisdom which has been hidden, which God ^bpredestined ²before the ^cages for our ^3dglory,

8 Which none of the ^arulers of this age have known; for if they had known, they would not have ^bcrucified the ^cLord of glory;

9 But as it is written, ^a“Things which ¹eye has not seen and ear has not heard and which have not ^bcome up ²in man’s heart; things which God has ^cprepared for those who ^3dlove Him.”

10 But to us God has ^1arevealed them through the ^bSpirit, for the Spirit ²searches all things, even the ^3cdepths of God.