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As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also are our"s in the day of the Lord Jesus.

For we write none other things unto you, than what ye read or acknowledge; and I trust ye shall acknowledge even to the end;

For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.

Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf.

Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;

But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:

For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:

And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.

And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.

For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.

Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;

Grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia:

That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:

That no flesh should glory in his presence.

And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:

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;

For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:

Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.

But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;

For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:

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.

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?

For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.

For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.

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.

And I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides, I know not whether I baptized any other.