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The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

Now to God, who can strengthen you, according to my Good News, in harmony with the revelation of the secret truth which is the proclamation of Yeshua the Messiah, kept hidden in silence for ages and ages,

to the only wise God, through Yeshua the Messiah, be the glory forever and ever! Amen.

From: Sha’ul, called by God’s will to be an emissary of the Messiah Yeshua; and from brother Sosthenes

To: God’s Messianic community in Corinth, consisting of those who have been set apart by Yeshua the Messiah and called to be God’s holy people — along with everyone everywhere who calls on the name of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, their Lord as well as ours:

Grace to you and shalom from God our Father and the Lord Yeshua the Messiah.

I thank my God always for you because of God’s love and kindness given to you through the Messiah Yeshua,

in that you have been enriched by him in so many ways, particularly in power of speech and depth of knowledge.

Indeed, the testimony about the Messiah has become firmly established in you;

so that you are not lacking any spiritual gift and are eagerly awaiting the revealing of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah.

He will enable you to hold out until the end and thus be blameless on the Day of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah —

God is trustworthy: it was he who called you into fellowship with his Son, Yeshua the Messiah, our Lord.

Nevertheless, brothers, I call on you in the name of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah to agree, all of you, in what you say, and not to let yourselves remain split into factions but be restored to having a common mind and a common purpose.

I say this because one of you says, “I follow Sha’ul”; another says, “I follow Apollos”; another, “I follow Kefa”; while still another says, “I follow the Messiah!”

Has the Messiah been split in pieces? Was it Sha’ul who was put to death on a stake for you? Were you immersed into the name of Sha’ul?

For the Messiah did not send me to immerse but to proclaim the Good News — and to do it without relying on “wisdom” that consists of mere rhetoric, so as not to rob the Messiah’s execution-stake of its power.

we go on proclaiming a Messiah executed on a stake as a criminal! To Jews this is an obstacle, and to Greeks it is nonsense;

but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, this same Messiah is God’s power and God’s wisdom!

so that no one should boast before God.

It is his doing that you are united with the Messiah Yeshua. He has become wisdom for us from God, and righteousness and holiness and redemption as well!

Therefore — as the Tanakh says — “Let anyone who wants to boast, boast about Adonai.”

for I had decided that while I was with you I would forget everything except Yeshua the Messiah, and even him only as someone who had been executed on a stake as a criminal.

Not one of this world’s leaders has understood it; because if they had, they would not have executed the Lord from whom this glory flows.

For who has known the mind of Adonai? Who will counsel him? But we have the mind of the Messiah!

As for me, brothers, I couldn’t talk to you as spiritual people but as worldly people, as babies, so far as experience with the Messiah is concerned.