in him you have received a wealth of all blessing, full power to speak of your faith and full insight into its meaning,

all of which verifies the testimony we bore to Christ when we were with you.

Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel. And to preach it with no fine rhetoric, lest the cross of Christ should lose its power!

Those who are doomed to perish find the story of the cross 'sheer folly,' but it means the power of God for those whom he saves.

but for those who are called, whether Jews or Greeks, a Christ who is the power of God and the wisdom of God.

what I said, what I preached, did not rest on the plausible arguments of 'wisdom' but on the proof supplied by the Spirit and its power,

so that your faith might not rest on any human 'wisdom' but on the power of God.

I will come to you before long, if the Lord wills, and then I will find out from these puffed up creatures not what their talk but what their power amounts to.

For God's Reign does not show itself in talk but in power.

by the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ; I have met with you in spirit, and by the power of our Lord Jesus

and the God who raised the Lord will also raise us by his power.

Do you not know that he who joins himself to a harlot is one with her in body (for the pair, it is said, shall become one flesh),

the wife cannot do as she pleases with her body ??her husband has power, and in the same way the husband cannot do as he pleases with his body ??his wife has power.

No temptation has waylaid you that is beyond man's power; trust God, he will never let you be tempted beyond what you can stand, but when temptation comes, he will provide the way out of it, so that you can bear up under it.

Judge for yourselves; is it proper for an unveiled woman to pray to God?

What! have you no houses to eat and drink in? Do you think you can show disrespect to the church of God and put the poor to shame? What can I say to you? Commend you? Not for this.

Thus a man who speaks in a 'tongue' must pray for the gift of interpreting it.

For if I pray with a 'tongue,' my spirit prays, no doubt, but my mind is no use to anyone.

Very well then, I will pray in the Spirit, but I will also pray with my mind; I will sing praise in the Spirit, but I will also sing praise with my mind.

You challenge this rule? Pray, did God's word start from you? Are you the only people it has reached?

For I am the very least of the apostles, unfit to bear the name of apostle, since I persecuted the church of God.

Then comes the end, when he hands over his royal power to God the Father, after putting down all other rulers, all other authorities and powers.

sown inglorious, it rises in glory; sown in weakness, it rises in power;

Thus, as we have borne the likeness of material Man, so we are to bear the likeness of the heavenly Man.