Brethren, look on your calling how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many of high degree are called:

what the world calls of low degree, yea, what it counts as nothing and what it thinks does not exist, God chose to put a stop to what it thinks exists,

If someone thinks he knows something, he does not yet know to the degree that he needs to know.

If other teachers possess that right over you, do not we possess it much more? Yet we have not availed ourselves of the right, but we patiently endure all things rather than hinder in the least degree the progress of the Good News of the Christ.

On the first of the week let each of you put by at home, laying up in whatever degree he may have prospered, that there may be no collections when I come.