plesynge to God by foly of prechynge maken hem saf þat byleueþ. [verse 22] For Iewes secheþ sygnes, & Grekes secheþ wysdom: [verse 23] bote we precheþ Crist þat is y-crucyfyed, þat is sclaundre [An e in the margin, S.] to [verse 24] þe Iewes, & foly to oþer mysbylefed men; bote to þilke þat beþ y-cleped, boþe Iewes & Grekes, we precheþ Crist þe wysdom of God, and þe vertue of God. [verse 25] For þat þat is folye of God it is wiser þan men; & [om. P.] þat is febel of God is strengere þan man. [verse 26] &, bryþeren, y-seo [Before seo erasure of y. The right half of o erased, S.] ȝe ȝoure clepynge, for nouþer mony [o in mony corrected from e, S.] wyse men aftur þe flesch, ne mony myȝty men, [verse 27] ne mony nobel men: bote þilke þinges þat beþ foly of þe worlde God ches, to confounde wyse men; & febel þinges of [verse 28] þe worlde God ches, to confounde stronge þinges; & þilke þinges þat weren noȝt nobel, but dispised of þe worlde, God chees, and [S folio 38b] þilke þinges [P folio 44b] þat beþ noȝt, to distruye þilke [verse 29] þinges þat beþ: þat eferich flesch ne reioysche hym noȝt in his siȝt. [verse 30] Bote of hym ȝe beþ in Iesu Crist, þat is y-mad wysdom to ous of God, & riȝtfulnesse, & holynesse, & for|buggynge: [verse 31] þat, as it is y-wryte, He þat ioyeþ, ioye he in God.
[verse 1] And [ii o in a late hand in the margin, S.] , bryþeren, whan þat ich com to ȝow, y ne come noȝt yn hyȝenesse of wordis ne of wysdom, schewenge to ȝow þe wytnesse of Crist. [verse 2] For ich demed þat y ne knewe no þing a-mong ȝow, bote Iesu Crist y-crucifyed. [verse 3] And ich wes a-mong ȝow in infirmyte, & in gret drede, & in quakynge. [verse 4] & my word & my predicacioun ne wes noȝt in semynge wordis [wordis repeated in the margin, 1st corr. S.] of mannes wysdom, bote in schewynge of þe spiryt & [verse 5] of vertu: þat ȝoure feiþ ne be noȝt in mannes wysdom, bote in þe vertu of God. [verse 6] & we spekeþ wysdom a-mong parfyt men: bote non wysdom of þis worlde, ne of þe princys of þis [verse 7] world þat beþ destruyed: bote we spekeþ þe wysdom of God in mysterie þat is y-hud, þe whuche wysdom God ordeynyd [verse 8] byfor þe worldes to oure ioye: þe whuche wysdom non of þe princes of þis worlde knew: for ȝif þei hadden y-knowe, þei [verse 9] nolde nefer haue crucyfyed þe Lord of blysse: but as it is
