Just the opposite: God chose what the world calls foolish to put the wise to shame, what the world calls weak to put the strong to shame,

For what man can understand his own inner thoughts except by his own spirit within him? Just so no one but the Spirit of God can understand the thoughts of God.

If the structure which one builds is burned up, he will get no pay; and yet he himself will be saved, but just as one who goes through a fire.

This is why I have sent Timothy to you. He is a dear child of mine and trustworthy in the Lord's work; he will call to your minds my methods in the work of Christ Jesus, just as I teach them everywhere in every church.

And these are just the characters some of you used to be. But now you have washed yourselves clean, you have been consecrated, you are now in right standing with God, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of God.

You husbands and wives must stop refusing each other what is due, unless you agree to do so just for awhile, so as to have plenty of time for prayer, and then to be together again, so as to keep Satan from tempting you because of your lack of self-control.

However, I should like for everyone to be just as I am myself, yet each of us has his own special gift from God, one for one way, another for another.

Just so the Lord has issued orders that those who preach the good news shall get their living out of it.

But I myself have never used any of these rights. And I am not writing this just to make it so in my case, for I had rather die than do that. No one shall rob me of this ground of boasting.

just as I myself am in the habit of pleasing everybody in everything, not aiming at my own welfare but at that of as many people as possible, in order that they may be saved.

You must follow my example, just as I myself am following Christ's.

For just as woman originated from man, so man is born of woman, and both, with everything else, originated from God.

For just as the human body is one and yet has many parts, and all the parts of the body, many as they are, constitute but one body, so it is with Christ.

But as it now is, God has placed the parts, every one of them, in the body just as He wanted them to be.

So it is with you; unless in your ecstatic speaking you speak a message that is clearly intelligible, how can the message spoken by you be understood? You might just as well be talking to the air!

Women must keep quiet in the churches, for no permission is given them to speak. On the contrary, they must take a subordinate place, just as the law says.

For just as all men die by virtue of their descent from Adam, so all such as are in union with Christ will be made to live again.

but God gives it just the body He sees fit, even each kind of seed its own body.

It is just like this with the resurrection of the dead.

Now those who are made of the dust are just like him who was first made of dust, and those who are heavenly are like Him who is from heaven,

If Timothy gets there, see that he is at ease among you, for he is devotedly doing the work of the Lord, just as I am.

As for our brother Apollos, I have earnestly urged him to go to see you, but he is not at all inclined to come just now; yet he is coming when he has a good opportunity.