so that you do not lack any spiritual gift as you wait for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ.

I thank God that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius,

For no one can lay any foundation other than what is being laid, which is Jesus Christ.

So for me, it is a minor matter that I am judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself.

For who concedes you any superiority? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you received it, why do you boast as though you did not?

When any of you has a legal dispute with another, does he dare go to court before the unrighteous rather than before the saints?

But I have not used any of these rights. And I am not writing these things so that something will be done for me. In fact, it would be better for me to die than -- no one will deprive me of my reason for boasting!

Any man who prays or prophesies with his head covered disgraces his head.

But any woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered disgraces her head, for it is one and the same thing as having a shaved head.

In any case, in the Lord woman is not independent of man, nor is man independent of woman.