Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

For you see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:

And my speech and my preaching were not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:

That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

But as it is written, Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for them that love him.

For what man knows the things of a man, except the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knows no man, but the Spirit of God.

Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

But he that is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.

For you are yet carnal: for while there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are you not carnal, and walk as men?

Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom you believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?

Now he that plants and he that waters are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labor.

According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation, and another builds thereon. But let every man take heed how he builds thereupon.

For no other foundation can a man lay than what is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;

Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall test every man's work of what sort it is.

If any man's work abide which he has built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.

If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.

If any man defiles the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.

Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours;

Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.

Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.

But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not my own self.

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.

And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that you might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.

For I think that God has set forth us the apostles last, as appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.

But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one no not to eat.

I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man does is outside the body; but he that commits fornication sins against his own body.

Now concerning the things of which you wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man has his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.

For how do you know, O wife, whether you shall save your husband? or how do you know, O man, whether you shall save your wife?

But as God has distributed to every man, as the Lord has called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches.

Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.

Let every man abide in the same calling in which he was called.

You are bought with a price; be not the servants of men.

Brethren, let every man, however he is called, therein abide with God.

I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.

But if any man think that he behaves himself improperly toward his virgin, if she pass the prime of her age, and need so require, let him do what he desires, he sins not: let them marry.

And if any man thinks that he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know.

But if any man loves God, the same is known by him.

But there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience about the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.

For if any man sees you who have knowledge eating in the idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him who is weak be encouraged to eat those things which are offered to idols;

Say I these things as a man? or says not the law the same also?

But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my boasting void.

For though I am free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.

To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.

And every man that strives for self control is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.

There has no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above that you are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that you may be able to bear it.

I speak as to wise men; judge what I say.

Let no man seek his own, but every man another's good.

But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake that showed it, and for conscience's sake: for the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof:

Conscience, I say, not your own, but of the other: for why is my liberty judged by another man's conscience?

Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.

But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his head.

For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.

For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.

Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.

Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.

For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things are of God.

Does not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man has long hair, it is a shame unto him?

But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.

But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.

And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that you come not together unto judgment. And the rest will I set in order when I come.

Therefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Spirit.

But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man for profit.

But in all these works that one and same Spirit, dividing to every man individually as he will.

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

For he that speaks in an unknown tongue speaks not unto men, but unto God: for no man understands him; but in the spirit he speaks mysteries.

But he that prophesies speaks unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort.

Brethren, be not children in understanding: but in malice be children, but in understanding be men.

In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, says the Lord.

If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that in turn; and let one interpret.

If any man thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.

But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant.

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

For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.

But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.

If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what is the gain to me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.

But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?

All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fish, and another of birds.

There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differs from another star in glory.

And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a life-giving spirit.

The first man is of the earth, made of dust: the second man is the Lord from heaven.

Let no man therefore despise him: but send him forth in peace, that he may come unto me: for I look for him with the brethren.

Watch, stand fast in the faith, be men, be strong.

If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha.