When I was a child, I spoke like a child, thought like a child, and reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up my childish ways.

I would like everyone to be unmarried, like I am. However, each person has a special gift from God, one this and another that.

To the Jews I became like a Jew in order to win Jews. To those under the Law I became like a man under the Law, in order to win those under the Law (although I myself am not under the Law).

Brothers, stop being childish in your thinking. Be like infants with respect to evil, but think like adults.

Those who are made of the dust are like the man from the dust; those who are heavenly are like the man who is from heaven.