I mean by this that one of you says, "I am a follower of Paul"; another, "I of Apollos"; another, "I of Cephas"; another, "I of Christ."

For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

so that no mortal man should glory in his presence.

Nay, as it is written. Eye has not seen, Nor ear heard, Neither have entered into man's heart The things which God has prepared For those who love him.

For what man knows the depths of man except the man's own inner Spirit? Even so, also, the Spirit of God knows the deeps profound of God.

Of these high themes we speak in words not taught by human philosophy, but by the Spirit; interpreting spiritual things to spiritual men.

The unspiritual man rejects the teachings of God's Spirit; for him it is folly. He cannot understand it, for it is spiritually discerned,

But the spiritual man discerns everything, yet is himself discerned by no one.

For what man understands the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct Him?

As for me, brothers, I could not talk to you as spiritual men, but as to creatures of flesh, mere babes in Christ.

The foundation is already laid??esus Christ??nd no man can lay another.

On that foundation, if a man proceeds to build gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble, each man's work will be made manifest.

The Day will disclose it, for it dawns in fire, and the fire will test each man's work, of what quality it is.

If any man's work??he building he has made??tands the test, he will be rewarded.

If any man's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, as it were through the flames.

So let no one make boast in men. For all things are yours;

Let any man look upon us as servants of Christ, and stewards of the secret truths of God.

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

So make no hasty judgment until the Lord come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make plain the purpose of men's hearts. Then each man's due praise will come to him from God.

But it seems to me that God has exhibited us apostles, last of all, like men doomed to death; for we are made a spectacle to the whole world, both to men and to angels.

Homeless men, we toil, working with our own hands.

It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and such immorality as is not even among the heathen??hat a man has taken his father's wife!

Yet you are puffed up instead of mourning and removing from among you the man who has done this thing.

I have handed over such a man to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, that his spirit may be saved, in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Expel that wicked man from among you.

Why then, if you have cases relating to earthly affairs which need to be decided, is it men who are absolutely nothing in the church whom you make your judges?

I say this to shame you. Is it so that there is not among you a single wise man, capable of deciding between a man and his brother?

or thieves, or avaricious men, or drunkards, or foul-mouthed men, or extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.

While a man who is united with the Lord is one with Him in spirit?

Flee from immorality. Every other sin that a man commits lies outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.

Now concerning the question in your letter. It is well for a man to have no intercourse with a woman,

but because there is so much immorality let each man have his own wife; and let each women have her own husband.

I would that every one lived as I do; but each man has his own special gift from God, one this, another that.

But to those already married my commandment is??nd not mine, but the Lord's??hat a wife is not to leave her husband;

So, was any man called, being circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Was any man called when he was uncircumcised? Let him not be circumcised.

For the slave who has been called in the Lord is the Lord's freedman; and in the same way, the free man who is called is Christ's slave.

You have been brought with a price; do not become slaves to men.

Where each man stood when he was called, there, brothers, let him stay, close to God.

I have no command from the Lord to give you concerning unmarried women; but I give you my opinion, and it is that of a man who, through the Lord's mercy, is deserving of your confidence.

I think then, that in view of the time of suffering now imminent, it is best for a man to remain as he is.

So I want you to be free from all anxieties. An unmarried man is anxious about the Lord's business, how he may please the Lord;

but a married man is anxious about worldly affairs, how he may please his wife, and he is divided in his mind.

If a man thinks that he already has knowledge, he does not yet truly know as he ought to know;

but if a man loves God, he is known by him.

So he is lost, this weak man, lost by your "knowledge." this brother for whom Christ died.

But for my part, I have never availed myself of any of these rights. I do not say this to bring it about in my own case. I would rather die than let any one make void this boast of mine.

Though free from all men, I make myself the slave of all, that I may win the more.

I am become weak to the weak, to win the weak. I am become all these things to all men that, by any and by all means, I may save some.

Every man who contends in the games continually trains himself by all manner of self-restraint. Now they do it to get a fading garland, but we, one that is unfading.

No temptation has overtaken you that is beyond man's power; but God is faithful, who will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear, but will, with every temptation, provide the way of escape also, so that you may be able to withstand.

I am speaking to men of sense; do you yourselves judge what I say.

For so I also try to please all men in every way, not by seeking my own good, but the good of the many, that they may be saved.

But I wish you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, and of a wife her husband is head; and that God is head of Christ.

Every man who prays or prophesies with head veiled dishonors his Head;

A man, indeed, ought not to have his head veiled, for he is an image and glory of God; but woman is a glory of man.

For it is not man who was made from woman, but woman was made from man.

And man was not created for woman, but woman for man.

However, in the Lord neither is woman independent of man, nor is man independent of woman;

for just as the woman was made from the man, so also is the man born of the woman, while they both come from God.

Nor does nature itself teach you that it is a disgrace to a man to have long hair,

Let each man scrutinize himself, and thus let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup.

Now to each man has been given his manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.

For to one man by the Spirit has been given a word of wisdom, to another a word of insight by the same Spirit;

to one man by the same Spirit is given faith, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit;

Though I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have no love, I am become a clanging brass, or a clashing cymbal.

When I was a child I spoke like a child, felt like a child, thought like a child; now that I am become a man, I have done with childish things.

For he who speaks in a "tongue" speaks not to man but to God, for no one understands him, but in the Spirit he utters secret truths.

But he who prophesies addresses words to men that build up, encourage, and console.

Brothers, do not become children in understanding; be babes in malice, but in understanding become mature men.

In the Law it is written. With men of other tongues, and by the lips of strangers, will I speak to this people, and even then they will not listen to me, says the Lord.

Accordingly, when the whole church assemblies, and everybody is speaking "with tongues," if there enter men unlearned or unbelieving, will they not say that you are mad?

But if all are prophesying when an unlearned or unbelieving man enters, he is convicted in conscience by your speaker, he feels himself judged by all,

For since by man came to death, by man came also the resurrection from the dead.

If after the manner of men I have fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what good does it do me? If the dead do not rise, Let us eat and drink, For we shall be dead tomorrow.

Foolish man! The seed you sow does not come to life unless it dies.

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

Thus it is written. The first man, Adam, became a living being, the last Adam, a life-giving Spirit.

The first man is of the earth, earthly; the second Man is of heaven.

They refresh my spirit as they do yours. So cultivate the acquaintance of such men.