Let no one deceive himself. If any one among you thinks that he is wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

Have ye already become satisfied? Did ye already become rich? Did ye reign without us? I wish, at least, that ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.

I beseech you, therefore, become imitators of me.

And ye have become puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he who did this deed might be taken away from you.

Was any one called, having been circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Has any one been called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.

Were you called, being a slave? care not for it; but, even if you can become free, use it rather.

Ye were bought with a price; become not slaves of men.

Have you become bound to a wife? Seek not a release. Have you been loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

and has become divided. And the unmarried woman and the virgin is anxious for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but she that is married is anxious for the things of the world, that she may please her husband.

But take heed, lest this liberty of yours become a stumbling-block to the weak.

To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may, by all means, save some.

And I am doing all things for the Gospel's sake, that I may become a partaker thereof with others.

Neither become ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it has been written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play."

Nay, but I say that the things which the gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God; and I do not wish you to become partakers with the demons.

Become imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.

If I speak with tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

When I was a child, I was wont to talk as a child, to think as a child, to reason as a child; since I have become a man, I have done away with the things of the child;

Therefore, my beloved brethren, become steadfast, immovable, abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.