5 that you were enriched in everything by Him ain all utterance and all knowledge,
6 even as athe testimony of Christ was confirmed1 in you,
7 so that you come short in no gift, eagerly awaiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ,
8awho will also confirm you to the end, bthatyoumaybe blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9aGod is faithful, by whom you were called into bthe fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
Sectarianism Is Sin
10 Now I plead with you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, athat you all speak the same thing, and that there be no2 divisions among you, but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
11 For it has been declared to me concerning you, my brethren, by those of Chloe’s household, that there are contentions among you.
12 Now I say this, that aeach of you says, “I am of Paul,” or “I am of bApollos,” or “I am of cCephas,” or “I am of Christ.”
13aIs Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?
14 I thank God that I baptized anone of you except bCrispus and cGaius,
15 lest anyone should say that I had baptized in my own name.
16 Yes, I also baptized the household of aStephanas. Besides, I do not know whether I baptized any other.
17 For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, anot with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect.
Christ the Power and Wisdom of God
18 For the1 message of the cross is afoolishness to bthose who are perishing, but to us cwho are being saved it is the dpower of God.
19 For it is written: a“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.”
20aWhere is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the1 disputer of this age? bHas not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
21 For since, in the awisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe.
22 For aJews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom;
23 but we preach Christ crucified, ato the Jews a stumbling block and to the2 Greeks bfoolishness,
24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ athe power of God and bthe wisdom of God.
25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
Glory Only in the Lord
26 For1 you see your calling, brethren, athat not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many2 noble, arecalled.
27 But aGod has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty;
28 and the1 base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are,
So that ye come behind in no gift (wste umav mh ustereisqai en mhdeni xarismati). Consecutive clause with wste and the infinitive and the double negative. Come behind (ustereisqai) is to be late (usterov), old verb seen already in Mark 10:21; Matthew 19:20. It is a wonderful record here recorded. But in II Corinthians 8:7-11; II Corinthians 9:1-7 Paul will have to complain that they have not paid their pledges for the collection, pledges made over a year before, a very modern complaint.
Waiting for the revelation (apekdexomenouv thn apokaluyin). This double compound is late and rare outside of Paul (I Corinthians 1:7; Galatians 5:5; Romans 8:19, Romans 8:23, Romans 8:25; Philippians 3:20), I Peter 3:20; Hebrews 9:28. It is an eager expectancy of the second coming of Christ here termed revelation like the eagerness in prosdexomenoi in Titus 2:13 for the same event. "As if that attitude of expectation were the highest posture that can be attained here by the Christian" (F.W. Robertson).
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing 1 Corinthians 1:7:
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