For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the good news??ut not with fine language, or the cross of Christ might seem an empty thing.

Where now is your philosopher? Your scribe? Your reasoner of today? Has not God made a fool of the world's wisdom?

so that in his presence no human being might have anything to boast of.

But you are his children, through your union with Christ Jesus, whom God has made our wisdom??ur uprightness and consecration and redemption,

so that your faith might rest, not on human philosophy, but on the power of God.

I did the planting, Apollos the watering, but it was God who made the plants grow.

Are you satisfied already? Have you become rich already? Have you entered your kingdom without waiting for us? I wish you had entered it, so that we might share it with you!

We are made fools of, for the sake of Christ, while you are men of sense, through being united with him. We are weak, you are strong. You are distinguished, we are despised.

But a man who has definitely made up his mind, under no constraint of passion but with full self-control, and who has decided in his own mind to keep her as she is, will be doing what is right.

For supposing there are so-called gods in heaven or on earth??nd indeed there are plenty of such gods and lords??6 yet for us there is just one God, the Father, who is the source of all things, and for whom we live, and just one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom everything was made and through whom we live.

But it is not everyone that has this knowledge; for some, through being long accustomed to idols, still eat meat that has been sacrificed to them as really offered to an idol, and their consciences, being oversensitive, are troubled.

For if somebody sees you, who are intelligent about this matter, attending a dinner in an idol's temple, will not he, with his sensitive conscience, be led to eat meat that is offered to idols?

Therefore, if what I eat makes my brother fall, I will never eat meat again, rather than make my brother fall.

Though I am free from anyone's control, I have made myself everyone's slave, so as to win over all the more.

Eat anything for sale in the meat market without raising any question, as far as conscience is concerned,

But if someone says to you, "This meat has been offered in sacrifice," let it alone, on account of the man who told you and his conscientious scruples;

For man was not made from woman, but woman from man,

For just as woman was made from man, man is born of woman, and both like everything else really come from God.

For, in the first place, when you meet as a congregation, I hear that you divide into sets, and in a measure I believe it.

Then what is the right course, brothers? When you meet together, suppose every one of you has a song, a teaching, a revelation, an ecstatic utterance, or an explanation of one; it must all be for the good of all.

And I am glad that Stephanas, Fortunatus, and Achaicus have come here, for they have made up for your absence.