To God’s church that was made holy by Christ Yeshua and called to be God’s holy people in the city of Corinth and to people everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Yeshua Christ.

Good will and peace from God our Father and the Lord Yeshua Christ are yours!

Therefore, you don’t lack any gift as you wait eagerly for our Lord Yeshua Christ to be revealed.

He will continue to give you strength until the end so that no one can accuse you of anything on the day of our Lord Yeshua Christ.

God faithfully keeps his promises. He called you to be partners with his Son Yeshua Christ our Lord.

God’s Wisdom Is Better Than the World’s Wisdom

Brothers and sisters, I encourage all of you in the name of our Lord Yeshua Christ to agree with each other and not to split into opposing groups. I want you to be united in your understanding and opinions.

Scripture says, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise. I will reject the intelligence of intelligent people.”

Where is the wise person? Where is the scholar? Where is the persuasive speaker of our time? Hasn’t God turned the wisdom of the world into nonsense?

The world with its wisdom was unable to recognize God in terms of his own wisdom. So God decided to use the nonsense of the Good News we speak to save those who believe.

Jews ask for miraculous signs, and Greeks look for wisdom,

But to those Jews and Greeks who are called, he is Christ, God’s power and God’s wisdom.

God’s nonsense is wiser than human wisdom, and God’s weakness is stronger than human strength.

You are partners with Christ Yeshua because of God. Yeshua has become our wisdom sent from God, our approval, our holiness, and our ransom from sin.

As Scripture says, “Whoever brags must brag about what the Lord has done.”

Brothers and sisters, when I came to you, I didn’t speak about God’s mystery as if it were some kind of brilliant message or wisdom.

so that your faith would not be based on human wisdom but on God’s power.

However, we do use wisdom to speak to those who are mature. It is a wisdom that doesn’t belong to this world or to the rulers of this world who are in power today and gone tomorrow.

We speak about the mystery of God’s wisdom. It is a wisdom that has been hidden, which God had planned for our glory before the world began.

Not one of the rulers of this world has known it. If they had, they wouldn’t have crucified the Lord of glory.

“Who has known the mind of the Lord so that he can teach him?” However, we have the mind of Christ.

Who is Apollos? Who is Paul? They are servants who helped you come to faith. Each did what the Lord gave him to do.

Don’t deceive yourselves. If any of you think you are wise in the ways of this world, you should give up that wisdom in order to become really wise.

The wisdom of this world is nonsense in God’s sight. That’s why Scripture says, “God catches the wise in their cleverness.”

Again Scripture says, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are pointless.”

I have a clear conscience, but that doesn’t mean I have God’s approval. It is the Lord who cross-examines me.