Behold your calling brethren: that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called:

But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world, to shame the wise, and the weak things of the world, to shame the things that are mighty:

That your faith might not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

Now ye are full: now ye are rich: ye have reigned as kings without us. And I would ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.

And are ye puffed up? Have ye not rather mourned, that he who hath done this deed, might be taken from among you?

But I have used none of these things; nor have I written thus, that it might be done so unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make this my glorying void.

For though I am free from all men, I made myself the servant of all, that I might gain the more.

To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews: to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law:

To them that are without the law, as without the law, (being not without the law to God, but under the law to Christ) that I might gain them that are without the law.

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

Now these things were for our example, that we might not desire evil things, as they desired.

That there might be no schism in the body, but that the members might have the same care for each other:

And whether one member suffer, all the members might suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members might rejoice with it.