Because the foolish thing of God is wiser than men, and the weak thing of God is stronger than men.

For you see your calling, brothers, that not many wise men according to the flesh are called, not many mighty, not many noble.

And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

so that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

But as it is written, "Eye has not seen, nor ear heard," nor has it entered into the heart of man, "the things which God has prepared for those who love Him."

For who among men knows the things of a man except the spirit of man within him? So also no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.

These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

For you are yet carnal. For in that there is among you envyings and strife and divisions, are you not carnal, and do you not walk according to men?

According to the grace of God which is given to me, as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But let every man be careful how he builds on it.

Therefore let no one glory in men. For all things are yours,

So let a man think of us as ministers of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

But to me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by a man's day; but I do not judge my own self,

And these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, so that you might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, so that no one of you may be puffed up against one another.

For I think that God has set forth us last, the apostles, as it were appointed to death; for we have become a spectacle to the world and to angels and to men.

But now I have written to you not to associate intimately, if any man called a brother and is either a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one not to eat.

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits fornication sins against his own body.

Now concerning what you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

For I would that all men were even as I myself am. But each has his proper gift from God, one according to this manner and another according to that.

For what do you know, O wife, whether you shall save your husband? Or what do you know, O man, whether you shall save your wife?

For he who is called a slave in the Lord is a freed man of the Lord. And likewise, he who is called a free man is a slave of Christ.

You are bought with a price, do not be the slaves of men.

Then I think this is good, because of the present necessity; that it is good for a man to be so.

And if any man thinks that he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know.

Do I say these things according to man? Or does not the Law say the same also?

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

No temptation has taken you but what is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but with the temptation also will make a way to escape, so that you may be able to bear it.

I speak as to wise men; you judge what I say.

even as I please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, so that they may be saved.

But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

Every man praying or prophesying with his head covered dishonors his Head.

For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God. But the woman is the glory of the man.

For the man is not of the woman, but the woman of the man.

Nor was the man created for the woman, but the woman for the man.

But neither is the man without the woman, nor the woman without the man, in the Lord.

For as the woman is of the man, even so the man is also through the woman; but all things of God.

Does not even nature itself teach you that if man has long hair, it is a shame to him?

But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread and drink of that cup.

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I have become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal.

When I was an infant, I spoke as an infant, I thought as an infant, I reasoned as an infant. But when I became a man, I did away with the things of an infant.

For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God. For no one hears, but in spirit he speaks mysteries.

But he who prophesies speaks to men for building up, and exhortation, and comfort.

If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.

For since death is through man, the resurrection of the dead also is through a Man.

If according to man I fought with beasts in Ephesus, what advantage is to me if the dead are not raised? "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!"

All flesh is not the same flesh; but one kind of flesh of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another of fish, and another of birds.

one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differs from another star in glory.

And so it is written, "The first man, Adam, became a living soul," the last Adam was a life-giving Spirit.

The first man was out of earth, earthy; the second Man was the Lord from Heaven.

Such the earthy man, such also the earthy ones. And such the heavenly Man, such also the heavenly ones.

And according as we bore the image of the earthy man, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man.

Watch! Stand fast in the faith! Be men! Be strong!