so that no man may boast before God.

so that, just as it is written, “Let him who boasts, boast in the Lord.”

So then let no one boast in men. For all things belong to you,

For who regards you as superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

But if any man thinks that he is acting unbecomingly toward his virgin daughter, if she is past her youth, and if it must be so, let him do what he wishes, he does not sin; let her marry.

But I have used none of these things. And I am not writing these things so that it will be done so in my case; for it would be better for me to die than have any man make my boast an empty one.

For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast of, for I am under compulsion; for woe is me if I do not preach the gospel.

and those members of the body which we deem less honorable, on these we bestow more abundant honor, and our less presentable members become much more presentable,