For Christ has not sent me to baptise, but to preach glad tidings; not in wisdom of word, that the cross of the Christ may not be made vain.

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

But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who has been made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness, and holiness, and redemption;

that your faith might not stand in men's wisdom, but in God's power.

I have given you milk to drink, not meat, for ye have not yet been able, nor indeed are ye yet able;

the work of each shall be made manifest; for the day shall declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire shall try the work of each what it is.

Already ye are filled; already ye have been enriched; ye have reigned without us; and I would that ye reigned, that we also might reign with you.

And ye are puffed up, and ye have not rather mourned, in order that he that has done this deed might be taken away out of the midst of you.

But meat does not commend us to God; neither if we should not eat do we come short; nor if we should eat have we an advantage.

Wherefore if meat be a fall-trap to my brother, I will eat no flesh for ever, that I may not be a fall-trap to my brother.

What is the reward then that I have? That in announcing the glad tidings I make the glad tidings costless to others, so as not to have made use, as belonging to me, of my right in announcing the glad tidings.

For being free from all, I have made myself bondman to all, that I might gain the most possible.

And I became to the Jews as a Jew, in order that I might gain the Jews: to those under law, as under law, not being myself under law, in order that I might gain those under law:

to those without law, as without law, (not as without law to God, but as legitimately subject to Christ,) in order that I might gain those without law.

I became to the weak, as weak, in order that I might gain the weak. To all I have become all things, in order that at all events I might save some.

Ye know that when ye were of the nations ye were led away to dumb idols, in whatever way ye might be led.

that there might be no division in the body, but that the members might have the same concern one for another.

If therefore the whole assembly come together in one place, and all speak with tongues, and simple persons enter in, or unbelievers, will not they say ye are mad?

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

the first man out of the earth, made of dust; the second man, out of heaven.

Such as he made of dust, such also those made of dust; and such as the heavenly one, such also the heavenly ones.

And as we have borne the image of the one made of dust, we shall bear also the image of the heavenly one.