But the natural man receives not the [things] of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot know them, for they are spiritually discerned.

For I wish that all men were even as I am; but each one has his gift from God, and one is of one kind and another of another.

You cannot drink the Lord's cup and the cup of demons; you cannot partake at the Lord's table and the table of demons.

The eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of you, or again, the head to the feet, I have no need of you;

Love suffers long and is kind; love envies not; love is not boastful, is not puffed up,

But I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor shall destruction inherit indestructibleness.