for Christ did not send me to baptize: but to preach the gospel: tho' not with the preaching of the wise, lest the cross of Christ should have been hinder'd in its efficacy.

for whereas the world, with all their learning, did not distinguish the characters of his divine wisdom, in his works, it pleased God to save those who believe, by preaching, which they counted folly.

for I did not think I was to have any other knowledge among you, than that of Christ, a crucified saviour.

my discourse, and my preaching did not consist in the persuasive reasonings of human wisdom, but in demonstrating the spiritual meaning of the scriptures:

for who has distinguish'd thee above another? or what have you, that you did not receive? now if you did receive it, why do you glory as if you had not received it?

You have already a sufficiency, you already abound, you live like princes in our absence: and would to God you did reign, that we too might have the advantage of your administration.

I did not mean the vicious Gentiles, the misers, the raparees, or with idolaters; for then you must have gone out of the world.

The wife is bound as long as her husband lives: but if her husbnd be dead, she is at liberty to be married, if she pleases; provided it be to a christian.

have not we the liberty to take a christian woman with us in our travels, as well as the rest of the apostles, as the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas did?

now these things were examples to deter us from longing after things that are pernicious, as they did.

neither let us commit fornication, as some of them did, of whom three and twenty thousand fell in one day.

What, did the gospel take its rise from you? or was it communicated to you alone?

after that, he was seen by above five hundred brethren at once: of whom the greater part remain alive to this day, but some are now dead.

Now if it has been declared, that Christ rose from the dead, how comes it, that some among you assert, "there is no resurrection of the dead?"

for if there be no resurrection of the dead, then Christ is not risen.

yea, and we are no better than enthusiastic impostors by affirming that God raised up Christ, when he never did raise him up.

for if the dead are not raised, then was not Christ raised:

But Christ is actually risen, as previous to those who were dead.

for since by man came death, by man the resurrection of the dead will likewise come.

for he hath subjected all things to him. but when it is said all things are subjected, it is plain that he is to be excepted, who did subject all things to him.

If it be not so, what can they effect who are baptized for the dead? if the dead rise not at all, why are they then baptized for the dead?

besides, my engaging with those monsters, as I may say, at Ephesus, what advantage was it to me? if the dead don't rise, "let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die."

But some will say, how will the dead be raised? with what kind of body will they appear?

such will be the resurrection of the dead: the body is sown corruptible, it will be raised incorruptible.

in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the sound of the last trumpet (for the trumpet shall sound) and the dead shall rise incorruptible; but as for us, we shall be changed.