For since the world, in God's wisdom, did not by its philosophy learn to know God, God saw fit, by the 'folly' of our proclamation, to save those who believe in Christ!

For God's 'folly' is wiser than men, and God's 'weakness' is stronger than men.

But you, by your union with Christ Jesus, belong to God; and Christ, by God's will, became not only our Wisdom, but also our Righteousness, Holiness, and Deliverance,

Yet to us God revealed it through his Spirit; for the Spirit fathoms all things, even the inmost depths of God's being.

For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's harvest field, God's building.

Do not you know that you are God's Temple, and that God's Spirit has his home in you?

For in God's sight this world's wisdom is folly. Scripture tells of-'One who catches the wise in their own craftiness,'

But you are Christ's and Christ is God's.

Do not you know that wrong-doers will have no share in God's Kingdom? Do not be deceived. No one who is immoral, or an idolater, or an adulterer, or licentious, or a sodomite,

Or a thief, or covetous, or a drunkard, or abusive, or grasping, will have any share in God's Kingdom.

To those who have no Law I became like a man who has no Law- -not that I am free from God's Law; no, for I am under Christ's Law-to win those who have no law.

What! did God's Message to the world originate with you? or did it find its way to none but you?

Listen, I will tell you God's hidden purpose! We shall not all have passed to our rest, but we shall all be transformed-in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye,