For consider your calling, brethren, that there are not many wise according to flesh, not many powerful, not many high-born.

and those parts of the body which we esteem to be the more void of honour, these we clothe with more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness;

After that, he was seen of more than five hundred brethren at once: of which many remain unto this day, and many are fallen asleep.

For and if indeed there are those called gods, whether in heaven or on earth, (as there are gods many, and lords many,)

On this account many among you are weak and infirm, and a good many are fallen asleep.

For even as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of the body, being many, are one body, so also is the Christ.

Now I wish that all of you spoke in unknown tongues, but even more [I wish] that you would prophesy. The one who prophesies is greater [and more useful] than the one who speaks in tongues, unless he translates or explains [what he says], so that the church may be edified [instructed, improved, strengthened].

If any man makes use of a tongue, let it not be more than two, or at the most three, and in turn; and let someone give the sense:

Instead, much more the parts of the body that seem to be more feeble are necessary.

whereas our more presentable members have no need of it. But God has so composed the body, giving more abundant honor to that member which lacked,

If in this present life we have a *hope* resting on Christ, and nothing more, we are more to be pitied than all the rest of the world.

For no matter how many guides you may have in the Christian life, you will not have many fathers; for in this matter of union with Christ, I became your father, through preaching the good news to you.