But I could not discuss things with you, my brothers, as spiritual persons; I had to address you as worldlings, as mere babes in Christ.

Now mere food will not bring us any nearer to God; if we abstain we do not lose anything, and if we eat we do not gain anything.

What I am proud of is not the mere preaching of the gospel; that I am constrained to do. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!

Brothers, do not be children in the sphere of intelligence; in evil be mere infants, but be mature in your intelligence.

Ah, if in this life we have nothing but a mere hope in Christ, we are of all men to be pitied most!

And what you sow is not the body that is to be; it is a mere grain of wheat, for example, or some other seed.