From: ngninja@baptist.email   
      
   Bible Reading for November 29   
      
   1 Corinthians Chapter 1   
      
   1 Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God,   
   and Sosthenes our brother,   
      
   2 Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are   
   sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every   
   place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:   
      
   3 Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord   
   Jesus Christ.   
      
   4 I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is   
   given you by Jesus Christ;   
      
   5 That in every thing ye are enriched by him, in all utterance, and in   
   all knowledge;   
      
   6 Even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:   
      
   7 So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord   
   Jesus Christ:   
      
   8 Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in   
   the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.   
      
   9 God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son   
   Jesus Christ our Lord.   
      
   10 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.   
      
   11 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.   
      
   12 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.   
      
   13 Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in   
   the name of Paul?   
      
   14 I thank God that I baptized none of you, but Crispus and Gaius;   
      
   15 Lest any should say that I had baptized in mine own name.   
      
   16 And I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides, I know not   
   whether I baptized any other.   
      
   17 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.   
      
   18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness;   
   but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.   
      
   19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will   
   bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.   
      
   20 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?   
      
   21 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.   
      
   22 For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:   
      
   23 But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and   
   unto the Greeks foolishness;   
      
   24 But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ 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 ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after   
   the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:   
      
   27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the   
   wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the   
   things which are mighty;   
      
   28 And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God   
   chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:   
      
   29 That no flesh should glory in his presence.   
      
   30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom,   
   and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:   
      
   31 That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in   
   the Lord.   
      
   1 Corinthians Chapter 2   
      
   1 And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of   
   speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.   
      
   2 For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ,   
   and him crucified.   
      
   3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.   
      
   4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's   
   wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:   
      
   5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the   
   power of God.   
      
   6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the   
   wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:   
      
   7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom,   
   which God ordained before the world unto our glory:   
      
   8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it,   
   they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.   
      
   9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have   
   entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for   
   them that love him.   
      
   10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit   
   searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.   
      
   11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man   
   which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the   
   Spirit of God.   
      
   12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit   
   which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to   
   us of God.   
      
   13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom   
   teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things   
   with spiritual.   
      
   14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God:   
   for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because   
   they are spiritually discerned.   
      
   15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged   
   of no man.   
      
   16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him?   
   But we have the mind of Christ.   
      
   1 Corinthians Chapter 3   
      
   1 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as   
   unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.   
      
   2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not   
   able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.   
      
   3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and   
   strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?   
      
   4 For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are   
   ye not carnal?   
      
   5 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye   
   believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?   
      
   6 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.   
      
   7 So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that   
   watereth; but God that giveth the increase.   
      
   8 Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall   
   receive his own reward according to his own labour.   
      
   9 For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are   
   God's building.   
      
   10 According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise   
   masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon.   
   But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.   
      
   11 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus   
   Christ.   
      
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)