For since in God's providence the world with all its wisdom did not come to know God, God chose, through the folly of the gospel message, to save those who had faith in him.

so that your faith might rest, not on human philosophy, but on the power of God.

Yet there is a wisdom that we impart when we are with people who have a mature faith, but it is not what this world calls wisdom, nor what the authorities of this world, doomed as they are to pass away, would call so.

What is Apollos? Or what is Paul? Just servants through whom you came to have faith, as the Lord gave each of us opportunity.

another, from his union with the same Spirit receives faith, another, by one and the same Spirit, the ability to cure the sick,

If I am inspired to preach and know all the secret truths and possess all knowledge, and if I have such perfect faith that I can move mountains, but have no love, I am nothing.

So faith, hope, and love endure. These are the great three, and the greatest of them is love.

and through which you are to be saved, if you hold on, unless your faith has been all for nothing.

and if Christ was not raised, there is nothing in our message; there is nothing in our faith either,

and if Christ was not raised, your faith is a delusion; you are still under the control of your sins.

Be on the watch. Stand firm in your faith. Act like men. Show yourselves strong.