I mean, that each of you saith, as if of different parties, I am of Paul, and I of Apollos, I of Cephas, and I of Christ.

Because the foolishness of God, as they call it, is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

For ye see by your calling, brethren, that not many wise men according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called:

but God hath chosen things that are foolish in the eye of the world to put it's wise men to confusion; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the mighty;

and things in the opinion of the world ignoble, and despicable, and accounted as nothing, hath God chosen, to abolish things that are in esteem among men;

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

But as it is written, "Eye hath not seen, and ear hath not heard, nor have entered into the heart of man, what things God hath prepared for those that love Him."

For who among men knoweth the things of a man, but the spirit of a man which is in him? so also the things of God no one knoweth, but the Spirit of God.

But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Whereas the spiritual man discerneth all things, yet is himself discerned by no one.

Because ye are still carnal: for while there is among you envy and strife and divisions, are ye not carnal, and do ye not walk as men?

every man's work shall be made manifest. For the great day will shew it; because it will be discovered by fire, and the fire will prove every man's work of what sort it is.

If any man's work abide, which he hath built upon it, he shall receive a reward:

but if any man's work be burnt, he will be damaged; though he himself shall be saved, but, as it were out of fire.

Therefore let no one glory in men: for all things are yours;

Let a man so account of us, as the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.

Now it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.

But to me it is of very small moment to be judged by you, or by any man's judgement; nor indeed do I judge myself:

For it seems to me that God hath as it were exhibited us the apostles last upon the stage as appointed to death; for we are made a spectacle to the world, and to angels and to men.

but I did not mean not at all with the whoremongers of this world, or the covetous, or rapacious, or idolaters: since ye must then go out of the world.

I speak it to your shame. What! is there not one wise man among you, that is able to judge between his bretheren?

Flee from whoredom. Every other sin, that a man committeth, is without the body; but he, that committeth whoredom, sinneth against his own body.

Now as to the things concerning which ye wrote to me: it were good for a man not to touch a woman.

for I could wish that all men were as I myself am; but every man hath his proper gift from God, one of one kind and another of another?

However, as God hath distributed to every man, and as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk: and thus I order in all the churches.

For he that is called in the Lord being a slave, is the Lord's freed-man: and he likewise that is called being free is the servant of Christ.

Ye are bought with a price, do not become the slaves of men.

for a single man to be so. Art thou bound to a wife indeed? seek not to be loosed: but art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

But if any man love God, he is owned by Him.

But there is not in all men this knowledge: and some with a consciousness of the idol unto this day, eat it as a thing sacrificed to an idol, and so their conscience being weak is defiled.

Do I speak these things as a man only?

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

No temptation has yet taken you but what is common to man: and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able to sustain; but will with the temptation also make a way of escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

I speak to you as to men of understanding: and judge ye what I say,

Conscience I say, not thy own, but the other's; for why is my liberty to be judged by another man's conscience?

Even as I also endeavour to please all men in all things, not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved.

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

Every man praying or prophesying, having a veil on his head, dishonoureth Him who is his head.

But every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled dishonoureth man her head; for it is even all one as if she were shaved.

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

For the man was not of the woman; but the woman was taken out of the man:

nor was the man created for the sake of the woman, but the woman for the man.

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

For as the woman was originally from the man, so also is the man by the woman: but all things are from God.

Doth not even nature itself teach you, that if a man have long hair, it is a disgrace to him?

But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of this bread and drink of this cup:

For if I speak with the tongues of men and angels, and have not charity, I am but as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned as a child: but when I became a man, I laid aside childish things.

For he, that speaketh in an unknown tongue, speaketh not to men, but to God: for no one understandeth, though in spirit he speaketh mysteries.

But he, that prophesieth, speaketh edification, and exhortation, and comfort to men.

My brethren, be not children in sense: but in malice be infants, and in your judgements shew yourselves to be men.

It is written in the law, "By men of another language, and by other lips, will I speak to this people, and even so they will not listen to me, saith the Lord."

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

for as by man came death, by man cometh also the resurrection of the dead.

If, to speak as a man, I fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantage have I, if the dead rise not? Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die. ---

All flesh is not the same kind of flesh: but there is one flesh of men, and another of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.

There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: and one star differeth from another star in glory.

And so it is written, "The first man Adam was made a living soul." But the last Adam is an enlivening spirit.

The first man being made out of the earth, was earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.

Be watchful, stand fast in the faith, behave like men, be strong: