As the testimony of Jesus Christ was made firm in you:

For Christ sent me not to immerse, but to announce good news: not in wisdom of word, lest the cross of Christ be made void.

Where the wise? where the scribe? where the seekers together of this life has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

But the foolish things of the world, has God chosen that he might shame the wise; and the weak things of the world has God chosen that he might shame things strong;

And the ignoble things of the world, and the despised things, has God chosen, and things not being, that the things being he might leave unemployed:

That no flesh might boast before him.

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

And we have not received the spirit of the world, but the spirit from God; that we might know things bestowed upon us as a gift by God.

And these things, brethren, I transformed to myself and to Apollos for you; that ye might learn in us not to think above what has been written, lest ye be puffed up one above one against the other.

Already were ye satisfied, already were ye rich, without us ye reigned; and I would ye also reigned, that we also might reign together with you.

And ye were puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he having done this work might be taken away from the midst of you.

To deliver such a one to Satan for the ruin of the flesh, that the spirit might be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Deprive ye not one another, except somewhat of an agreement for a time, that ye might have leisure for fasting and prayer; and again upon the same ye might come together, lest Satan tempt you for your want of self command.

The wife and virgin have been divided. The unmarried cares for the things of the Lord, that she might be holy also in body and spirit: and she married cares for the things of the world, how she shall please her husband.

But I used none of these things: and I wrote not these things, that thus it might be with me: for good to me rather to die, than that any should render my boasting void.

For being free from all, I have subjected myself to all, that I might gain the more.

And I was to the Jews as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews: to them under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them under the law;

To the lawless, as lawless, (not being lawless to God, but subject to the law to Christ,) that I might gain the lawless,

I became to the weak as weak, that I might gain the weak: I have been all things to all, that altogether I might save some.

And this. I do on account of the good news, that I might become a partaker of it.

Do ye not know that they running in a race-course, all truly run, and one receives the prize of combat? Do ye so run, that ye might receive.

And every one contending for the prize, has self command in all things. These surely therefore that they might receive a corruptible crown; and we an incorruptible.

As I also please in all things to all, not seeking my advantage, but that of many, that they might be saved.

For there must be also sects among you, that the tried might be made manifest among you.

Pursue love, and be emulous of spiritual things, and rather that ye might prophesy.

Wherefore he speaking in a tongue, let, him pray that he might interpret.

But in the church, I will to speak five words by my mind, that I might also sound. in the ears of others, than ten thousand words in a tongue.

And so the hidden things of his heart are made manifest; and so having fallen upon the face, he will worship God, proclaiming that God is truly with you.

For ye are all able to prophesy one by one, that all might learn, and all might be encouraged.

For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.

And when all things be subjected to him, then also shall the Son himself be subjected to him having made all things subject to him, that God might be all things in all.

Froth, what thou sowest is not made alive, except it die:

The first man of earth, made of earth: the second man the Lord from heaven.

As the made of earth, such also the made of earth: and as the celestial, such also the celestial.

And as we have borne the image of the made of earth, we shall also bear the image of the celestial.

And perhaps with you I shall abide, or also pass the winter, that ye might send me forward wherever I go.

Therefore no one should despise him: and send ye him forward in peace, that he might come to me: for I expect him with the brethren.