For you have grown rich in everything through union with him??n power of expression and in capacity for knowledge.

So your experience has confirmed the testimony that I bore to Christ,

For to those who are on the way to destruction, the story of the cross is nonsense, but to us who are to be saved, it means all the power of God.

but to those whom God has called, whether they are Jews or Greeks, a Christ who is God's power and God's wisdom.

and my teaching and message were not put in plausible, philosophical language, but they were attended with convincing spiritual power,

so that your faith might rest, not on human philosophy, but on the power of God.

For the reign of God is not a matter of words but of power.

and meeting with you, in spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus, by the authority of our Lord Jesus

Some of you used to be like that; but you have washed it all away, you have been consecrated, you have become upright, by the power of our Lord Jesus Christ and through the Spirit of our God.

And as God raised the Lord to life, he will raise us also by his power.

One man receives through the Spirit the power to speak wisely, another, by the same Spirit, receives the power to express knowledge,

another, the working of wonders, another, inspiration in preaching, another, the power of distinguishing the true Spirit from false ones, another, various ecstatic utterances, and another, the ability to explain them.

It will bear anything, believe anything, hope for anything, endure anything.

Therefore, the man who can speak ecstatically should pray for the power to explain what he says.

For if I pray ecstatically, it is my spirit that prays, but my mind is helping nobody.

Then what am I to do? I will pray ecstatically, but I will pray intelligently too. I will sing ecstatically, but I will sing intelligently too.

After that will come the end, when he will turn over the kingdom to God his Father, bringing to an end all other government, authority, and power,