I Corinthians 1:10-1:25

Discovering Unity at the Cross

The message of the culture divides and is diametrically opposed to the message of the cross where God's people unite together at the foot of the cross. Here, we can be encouraged about who we are becoming in Christ as we stumble along this path of salvation. This segment addresses divisions in the church, then and today.

  1. Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
  2. For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.
  3. Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.
  4. Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?
  5. I thank God that I baptized none of you, but Crispus and Gaius;
  6. Lest any should say that I had baptized in mine own name.
  7. And I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides, I know not whether I baptized any other.
  8. 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.
  9. For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
  10. For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
  11. 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?
  12. 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.
  13. For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
  14. But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;
  15. But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
  16. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.