But God chose the foolish things of the world, so that he might humiliate the wise, and God chose the weak things of the world, so that he might humiliate the powerful.

And God chose the common things of the world, and the disdained things, and the things that are not, so that he might make useless the things that are,

But we did not receive the spirit of the world, but the spirit from God, so that we might know the things graciously given to us by God.

But it is a very small thing to me that I might be appraised by you or by a day of mankind. Yet neither do I appraise myself,

Now these things, brothers, I applied to myself and Apollos for your sakes, so that in us ye might learn not to think above that which is written, so that ye may not be puffed up, one over the one against the other.

Already ye are filled. Already ye have become rich. Ye reigned without us, and O that ye did indeed reign, so that we also might reign with you.

And ye are puffed up and did not rather mourn, so that he who committed this deed might be taken away from the midst of you.

to deliver such a man to Satan for destruction of the flesh, so that the spirit might be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

For although being free from all men, I made myself a servant to all, so that I might gain the more.

And to the Jews I became as a Jew, so that I might gain Jews, to those under law, as under law, so that I might gain those under law,

to those without law, as without law (not being without law to God, but within law to Christ), so that I might gain men without law.

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

And I do this for sake of the good-news, so that I might become a fellow participant of it.

And every man who strives for mastery exercises self-control in all things. Indeed therefore those men do it so that they might obtain a perishable crown, but we an imperishable.

But I give my body a black eye and subdue it, lest somehow having preached to others, I myself might become disqualified.

Yet in an assembly I would rather speak five words with my intellect, so that I might also make others understand, than countless words in a tongue.