1 Corinthians 1

Father, you are faithful. You have called me into the fellowship of your son, Jesus Christ, my Lord. I thank you for your grace which is given to me by Jesus Christ. You have confirmed me to the end, that I am blameless in the day of my Lord Jesus, the Christ.

In everything I am enriched by Jesus. In all utterance and in all knowledge, even as the testimony of Christ is confirmed in me, so that I am behind in no gift, as I wait on the coming of my Lord Jesus.

In the meantime, father, I listen to the preaching of the cross, which is a foolishness to those that are perishing, but to me, your child, the message of the cross is the power of God.

For you, father, have said, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.” You make foolish the wisdom of this world.

For since, in it’s “wisdom”, the world knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believed.