For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not in wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made void.

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

but God chose the foolish things of the world, that he might put to shame them that are wise; and God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong;

and the base things of the world, and the things that are despised, did God choose, yea and the things that are not, that he might bring to nought the things that are:

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

But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is from God; that we might know the things that were freely given to us of God.

I fed you with milk, not with meat; for ye were not yet able to bear it : nay, not even now are ye able;

each man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself shall prove each man's work of what sort it is.

Now these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes; that in us ye might learn not to go beyond the things which are written; that no one of you be puffed up for the one against the other.

Already are ye filled, already ye are become rich, ye have come to reign without us: yea and I would that ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.

For, I think, God hath set forth us the apostles last of all, as men doomed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, both to angels and men.

being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things, even until now.

And ye are puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he that had done this deed might be taken away from among you.

For if a man see thee who hast knowledge sitting at meat in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

Wherefore, if meat causeth my brother to stumble, I will eat no flesh for evermore, that I cause not my brother to stumble.

For though I was free from all men, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, not being myself under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;

to them that are without law, as without law, not being without law to God, but under law to Christ, that I might gain them that are without law.

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

Neither let us make trial of the Lord, as some of them made trial, and perished by the serpents.

For there must be also factions among you, that they that are approved may be made manifest among you.

Ye know that when ye were Gentiles ye were led away unto those dumb idols, howsoever ye might led.

For in one Spirit were we all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all made to drink of one Spirit.

howbeit in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue.

If therefore the whole church be assembled together and all speak with tongues, and there come in men unlearned or unbelieving, will they not say that ye are mad?

the secrets of his heart are made manifest; and so he will fall down on his face and worship God, declaring that God is among you indeed.

But if a revelation be made to another sitting by, let the first keep silence.

For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

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

Upon the first day of the week let each one of you lay by him in store, as he may prosper, that no collections be made when I come.

and if it be meet for me to go also, they shall go with me.