For the message of [Christ dying on] the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing [i.e., in a lost state], but it is God's power to us who are being saved.

I came to you in [a state of] weakness and fear and great trembling.

Each person should live according to what the Lord has given him and in the state he was when God called him. And this is what I require in all the churches.

Each person should remain in the [same] state he was in when he was called [by God].

Brothers, let each one remain with God in that condition in which he was [when he was] called.

And this I say for your particular advantage, not to lay any constraint upon you, but as that which is most suitable to a state of uninterrupted attendance upon religion.

And he who hath stood stedfast in the heart -- not having necessity -- and hath authority over his own will, and this he hath determined in his heart -- to keep his own virgin -- doth well;

But in my judgement, her state is a more enviable one if she remains as she is; and I also think that I have the Spirit of God.

Neither become ye idolaters, as certain of them, as it hath been written, 'The people sat down to eat and to drink, and stood up to play;'

but when the perfect state of things is come, all that is imperfect will be brought to an end.

For now [i.e., during the church's infant state] we see in a mirror [Note: God's word is elsewhere likened to a mirror. See James 1:22-25] indistinctly [i.e., because of having only partial knowledge and prophecy], but then [i.e., when the church matures and has the completed Scriptures], we will see face to face [i.e., clearly]. Now I have [only] partial knowledge, but then I will have full knowledge, just as [God has] full knowledge of me.

And I make known to you, brethren, the good news that I proclaimed to you, which also ye did receive, in which also ye have stood,

It is the same with the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in a state of decay, it is raised free from decay;

The body is planted in a state of dishonor but is raised in a state of splendor. It is planted in weakness but is raised in power.

For a door has stood open to me, great and effective, and many opposed.