For you see your calling, brothers, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble [are called];

but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world has God chosen to put to shame the mighty,

that your faith might not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.

You are already full, you are already enriched; you have reigned without us; and I would that you did reign, that we also might reign with you.

to the Jews I have been as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to those under the law, as under the law, not being myself under the law, that I might gain those under the law;

to those without law, as without law, being not without law to God, but with law to Christ, that I might gain those without law;

to the weak I have been as weak, that I might gain the weak; I have been all things to all men, that I may save some in all conditions;

and to another the performance of mighty works, and to another prophecy, and to another discrimination of spirits, and to another different tongues, and to another an interpretation of tongues;