Where is your wise man? Where your expounder of the Law? Where your investigator of the questions of this present age? Has not God shown the world's wisdom to be utter foolishness?

For no one can lay any other foundation in addition to that which is already laid, namely Jesus Christ.

If one of you has a grievance against an opponent, does he dare to go to law before irreligious men and not before God's people?

but brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers?

To say no more, then, it is altogether a defect in you that you have law-suits with one another. Why not rather endure injustice? Why not rather submit to being defrauded?

Thus much I say in your own interest; not to lay a trap for you, but to help towards what is becoming, and enable you to wait on the Lord without distraction.

Am I making use of merely worldly illustrations? Does not the Law speak in the same tone?

For in the Law of Moses it is written, "Thou shalt not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain."

To the Jews I have become like a Jew in order to win Jews; to men under the Law as if I were under the Law--although I am not--in order to win those who are under the Law;

to men without Law as if I were without Law--although I am not without Law in relation to God but am abiding in Christ's Law--in order to win those who are without Law.

But with most of them God was not well pleased; for they were laid low in the Desert.

In the Law it stands written, "'By men of unknown tongues and by the lips of an unknown nation will I speak to this People, but even then they will not listen to Me', says the Lord."

Let married women be silent in the Churches, for they are not permitted to speak. They must be content with a subordinate place, as the Law also says;

Now sin is the sting of death, and sin derives its power from the Law;