what I said, what I preached, did not rest on the plausible arguments of 'wisdom' but on the proof supplied by the Spirit and its power,

Now I have applied what has been said above to myself and Apollos, to teach you ... that you are not to be puffed up with rivalry over one teacher as against another.

Do you not know that he who joins himself to a harlot is one with her in body (for the pair, it is said, shall become one flesh),

But what I have just said is by way of concession, not command.

Well, unless I understand the meaning of what is said to me, I shall appear to the speaker to be talking gibberish, and to my mind he will be talking gibberish himself.

Let only two or three prophets speak, while the rest exercise their judgment upon what is said.

First and foremost, I passed on to you what I had myself received, namely, that Christ died for our sins as the scriptures had said,

that he was buried, that he rose on the third day as the scriptures had said,

For God has put everything under his feet. When it is said that everything has been put under him, plainly that excludes Him who put everything under him;