Where is the wise? where is he who has knowledge of the law? where is the man of this world who has a love of discussion? has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

And the low things of the world, and the things without honour, did God make selection of, yes, even the things which are not, so that he might make as nothing the things which are:

How is it, that if any one of you has a cause at law against another, he takes it before a Gentile judge and not before the saints?

But a brother who has a cause at law against another takes it before Gentile judges.

More than this, it is not to your credit to have causes at law with one another at all. Why not put up with wrong? why not undergo loss?

Am I talking as a man? does not the law say the same?

For it says in the law of Moses, It is not right to keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it. Is it for the oxen that God is giving orders?

And to the Jews I was as a Jew, so that I might give the good news to them; to those under the law I was the same, not as being myself under the law, but so that I might give the good news to those under the law.

To those without the law I was as one without the law, not as being without law to God, but as under law to Christ, so that I might give the good news to those without the law.

In the law it is said, By men of other tongues and by strange lips will my words come to this people; and not even so will they give ear to me, says the Lord.

Let women keep quiet in the churches: for it is not right for them to be talking; but let them be under control, as it says in the law.

The pain of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law: