And when I came to you, brethren, I did not come with superiority of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.

So if you have law courts dealing with matters of this life, do you appoint them as judges who are of no account in the church?

For even if there are so-called gods whether in heaven or on earth, as indeed there are many gods and many lords,

But now, brethren, if I come to you speaking in tongues, what will I profit you unless I speak to you either by way of revelation or of knowledge or of prophecy or of teaching?

Yet even lifeless things, either flute or harp, in producing a sound, if they do not produce a distinction in the tones, how will it be known what is played on the flute or on the harp?

If we have hoped in Christ in this life only, we are of all men most to be pitied.

and that which you sow, you do not sow the body which is to be, but a bare grain, perhaps of wheat or of something else.