For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to proclaim the Good News?not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ would not be made void.

Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this world? Hasn't God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

that no flesh might boast before God.

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 by God.

Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to go beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.

You are already filled. You have already become rich. You have come to reign without us. Yes, and I wish that you did reign, that we also might reign with you.

For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.

Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.

You are puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.

and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.

Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forevermore, that I do not cause my brother to stumble.

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

To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, not being myself under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law;

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

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

You know that when you were heathen, you were led away to those mute idols, however you might be led.

However in the church I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in another language.

But if a revelation is made to another sitting by, let the first keep silent.

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

You foolish one, that which you yourself sow is not made alive unless it dies.

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

As is the one made of dust, such are those who are also made of dust; and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.

As we have borne the image of those made of dust, let us also bear the image of the heavenly.

On the first day of the week, let each one of you save, as he may prosper, that no collections be made when I come.