For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not in fine speech, least the cross of Christ should be made of no effect.

Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputant of the age? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

But ye are of Him in Christ Jesus, who from God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:

for I did not think it meet to know any thing among you, but Jesus Christ, and Him crucified.

that your faith might not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit of God; that we might know the things that are graciously bestowed upon us by God:

I have fed you with milk, and not with meat; for ye were not hitherto able to bear it, nor yet are ye even now able.

every man's work shall be made manifest. For the great day will shew it; because it will be discovered by fire, and the fire will prove every man's work of what sort it is.

Ye are now full, ye are now rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I wish ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.

For it seems to me that God hath as it were exhibited us the apostles last upon the stage as appointed to death; for we are made a spectacle to the world, and to angels and to men.

We are made as the filth of the world, and the refuse of all things to this day.

And are ye puffed up, and have not rather grieved? that he who hath committed this fact might be expelled from among you?

Wast thou called being a slave, be not anxious about it; but if thou canst be made free, prefer it.

But meat does not recommend us to God; for neither, if we eat, are we the better; nor the worse, if we eat not.

wherefore if meat make my brother to offend, I will never eat flesh while I breathe, least I make my brother to offend.

or doth He say this indeed for our sakes? For it is certainly written for our sakes, that he, who ploweth, might plow in hope; and that he, who thresheth in hope, should partake of his hope.

But I have availed myself of none of these things. Nor have I written these things, that it might be so done as to me: for it were better for me to die, than that any one should make this my glorying void.

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

And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; that is, to those, who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law:

and to those without the law as without the law, (not being without law to God, but under the law to Christ) that I might gain those who are without the law.

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

Now these things were examples for us, that we might not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

For there must be even heresies among you, that they who are approved may be made manifest among you.

so also is the mystical body of Christ; for by one Spirit we are all baptized into one body, (whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free) and are all made to drink into one Spirit:

that there might be no schism in the body; but that all the members might have the same care one for another.

If then the whole church be come together and all speak in unknown tongues, and there come in illiterate persons, or infidels, will they not say that ye are mad?

And thus the secrets of his heart are made manifest; so that falling down upon his face he will worship God, declaring that God is indeed among you.

For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.

And so it is written, "The first man Adam was made a living soul." But the last Adam is an enlivening spirit.

The first man being made out of the earth, was earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.

I rejoice at the coming of Stephanas, and Fortunatus, and Achaicus: for what was wanting in you, they have made up.

If any one love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be made a curse.