† 3:25: or, a propitiation
- 4:3: Genesis 15:6
- 4:8: Psalms 32:1-2
- 4:17: Genesis 17:5
- 4:18: Genesis 15:5
- 4:22: Genesis 15:6
† 7:1: The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”
- 7:7: Exodus 20:17; Deuteronomy 5:21
† 8:1: NU omits “who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit”
‡ 8:15: Abba is an Aramaic word for “Father” or “Daddy”, which can be used affectionately and respectfully in prayer to our Father in heaven.
§ 8:29: The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”
- 8:36: Psalms 44:22
- 9:7: Genesis 21:12
- 9:9: Genesis 18:10,14
† 9:11: NU puts the phrase “not of works, but of him who calls” at the beginning of verse 12 instead of the end of verse 11.
- 9:12: Genesis 25:23
- 9:13: Malachi 1:2-3
- 9:15: Exodus 33:19
- 9:17: Exodus 9:16
- 9:20: Isaiah 29:16; 45:9
- 9:25: Hosea 2:23
- 9:26: Hosea 1:10
- 9:28: Isaiah 10:22-23
‡ 9:29: Greek: Sabaoth (or Hebrew: Tze’va’ot)
- 9:29: Isaiah 1:9
§ 9:33: “Behold”, from “ἰδοὺ”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.
- 9:33: Isaiah 8:14; 28:16
† 10:4: or, completion, or end
- 10:5: Leviticus 18:5
- 10:6: Deuteronomy 30:12
- 10:7: Deuteronomy 30:13
- 10:8: Deuteronomy 30:14
- 10:11: Isaiah 28:16
- 10:13: Joel 2:32
- 10:15: Isaiah 52:7
- 10:16: Isaiah 53:1
- 10:18: Psalms 19:4
- 10:19: Deuteronomy 32:21
- 10:20: Isaiah 65:1
- 10:21: Isaiah 65:2
- 11:3: 1 Kings 19:10,14
- 11:4: 1 Kings 19:18
- 11:8: Deuteronomy 29:4; Isaiah 29:10
- 11:10: Psalms 69:22,23
† 11:25: The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”
- 11:27: Isaiah 59:20-21; 27:9; Jeremiah 31:33-34
- 11:34: Isaiah 40:13
- 11:35: Job 41:11
- 12:19: Deuteronomy 32:35
- 12:20: Proverbs 25:21-22
† 13:9: TR adds “You shall not give false testimony,”
- 13:9: Exodus 20:13-15,17; Deuteronomy 5:17-19,21
- 13:9: Leviticus 19:18
- 14:11: Isaiah 45:23
† 14:26: TR places verses 24-26 after Romans 16:24 as verses 25-27.
- 15:3: Psalms 69:9
† 15:7: TR reads “us” instead of “you”
- 15:9: 2 Samuel 22:50; Psalms 18:49
- 15:10: Deuteronomy 32:43
- 15:11: Psalms 117:1
- 15:12: Isaiah 11:10
‡ 15:14: The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”
- 15:21: Isaiah 52:15
† 16:1: or, deacon
‡ 16:14: The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”
§ 16:25: TR places Romans 14:24-26 at the end of Romans instead of at the end of chapter 14, and numbers these verses 16:25-27.
1 Corinthians
Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians
1
1 Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ† through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes, 2 to the assembly of God which is at Corinth—those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours: 3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
4 I always thank my God concerning you for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus, 5 that in everything you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge— 6 even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you— 7 so that you come behind in no gift, waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ, 8 who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
10 Now I beg you, brothers,‡ through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions amongst you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgement. 11 For it has been reported to me concerning you, my brothers, by those who are from Chloe’s household, that there are contentions amongst you. 12 Now I mean this, that each one of you says, “I follow Paul,” “I follow Apollos,” “I follow Cephas,” and, “I follow Christ.” 13 Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptised into the name of Paul? 14 I thank God that I baptised none of you except Crispus and Gaius, 15 so that no one should say that I had baptised you into my own name. 16 (I also baptised the household of Stephanas; besides them, I don’t know whether I baptised any other.) 17 For Christ sent me not to baptise, but to preach the Good News—not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ wouldn’t be made void. 18 For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19 For it is written,
“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise.
I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing.”*
20 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Hasn’t God made foolish the wisdom of this world? 21 For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn’t know God, it was God’s good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe. 22 For Jews ask for signs, Greeks seek after wisdom, 23 but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Greeks, 24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God; 25 because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
26 For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble; 27 but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world that he might put to shame the things that are strong. 28 God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that don’t exist, that he might bring to nothing the things that exist, 29 that no flesh should boast before God. 30 Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption, 31 that, as it is written, “He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.”*
2
1 When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. 2 For I determined not to know anything amongst you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. 3 I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling. 4 My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, 5 that your faith wouldn’t stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
6 We speak wisdom, however, amongst those who are full grown, yet a wisdom not of this world nor of the rulers of this world who are coming to nothing. 7 But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory, 8 which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn’t have crucified the Lord of glory. 9 But as it is written,
“Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear,
which didn’t enter into the heart of man,
these God has prepared for those who love him.”*
10 But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. 11 For who amongst men knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God except God’s Spirit. 12 But we received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God. 13 We also speak these things, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things. 14 Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him; and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is to be judged by no one. 16 “For who has known the mind of the Lord that he should instruct him?” * But we have Christ’s mind.
3
1 Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ. 2 I fed you with milk, not with solid food, for you weren’t yet ready. Indeed, you aren’t ready even now, 3 for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions amongst you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in the ways of men? 4 For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” aren’t you fleshly?
5 Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed, and each as the Lord gave to him? 6 I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase. 7 So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. 8 Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to
