Letters to the Churches

and the God of the peace shall bruise the Adversary under your feet quickly; the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen!

Salute you do Timotheus, my fellow-workman, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kindred;

I Tertius salute you (who wrote the letter) in the Lord;

salute you doth Gaius, my host, and of the whole assembly; salute you doth Erastus, the steward of the city, and Quartus the brother,

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

And to Him who is able to establish you, according to my good news, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the secret, in the times of the ages having been kept silent,

and now having been made manifest, also, through prophetic writings, according to a command of the age-during God, having been made known to all the nations for obedience of faith--

to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to him be glory to the ages. Amen.

Paul, a called apostle of Jesus Christ, through the will of God, and Sosthenes the brother,

to the assembly of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all those calling upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place--both theirs and ours:

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!

I give thanks to my God always concerning you for the grace of God that was given to you in Christ Jesus,

that in every thing ye were enriched in him, in all discourse and all knowledge,

according as the testimony of the Christ was confirmed in you,

so that ye are not behind in any gift, waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ,

who also shall confirm you unto the end--unblamable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ;

faithful is God, through whom ye were called to the fellowship of His Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

And I call upon you, brethren, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that the same thing ye may all say, and there may not be divisions among you, and ye may be perfected in the same mind, and in the same judgment,

for it was signified to me concerning you, my brethren, by those of Chloe, that contentions are among you;

and I say this, that each one of you saith, `I, indeed, am of Paul' --`and I of Apollos,' --`and I of Cephas,' --`and I of Christ.'

Hath the Christ been divided? was Paul crucified for you? or to the name of Paul were ye baptized;

I give thanks to God that no one of you did I baptize, except Crispus and Gaius--

that no one may say that to my own name I did baptize;

and I did baptize also Stephanas' household--further, I have not known if I did baptize any other.

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but--to proclaim good news; not in wisdom of discourse, that the cross of the Christ may not be made of none effect;