lest any should say that I in mine own name had baptised.

which wisdom none of the rulers of the world knew. For had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

This say I, brethren: the time is short. It remaineth that they which have wives, be as though they had none:

And unto the Jews, I became as a Jew, to win the Jews. To them that were under the law, was I made as though I had been under the law, to win them that were under the law.

To them that were without law, became I as though I had been without law - when I was not without law as pertaining to God, but under a law as concerning Christ - to win them that were without law.

But in many of them had God no delight. For they were overthrown in the wilderness.

If we had truly judged ourselves, we should not have been judged.

And if one member suffer, all suffer with him: if one member be had in honour, all members be glad also.

Though I spake with the tongues of men and angels, and yet had no love, I were even as sounding brass: or as a tinkling cymbal.

And though I could prophesy, and understood all secrets, and all knowledge: yea, if I had all faith so that I could move mountains out of their places, and yet had no love, I were nothing.

And though I bestowed all my goods to feed the poor, and though I gave my body even that I burned, and yet had no love, it profiteth me nothing.

Yet had I rather, in the congregation, to speak five words with my mind to the information of others, rather than ten thousand words with the tongue.