For Christ did not think I baptized any one else. For Christ did not send me forth to baptize, but to proclaim the gospel; and that not in philosophic words, lest the Cross of Christ should be made an empty thing.

so that no mortal man should glory in his presence.

in order that your faith should rest, not on human philosophy, but on the power of God.

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

For if any one should see you, the possessor of "knowledge," reclining at table in an idol's temple, would not his conscience, if he were weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the gospel should get their living by the gospel.

but I bruise my body and keep it in subjection, lest having called others to the contest, I should myself be disqualified.

and for your conscience sake??is conscience, not your own. "But," you may object, "why should my freedom be decided upon another's scruples of conscience?

Judge of this for your own selves. It is fitting that a woman should pray to God with her head unveiled.

If however, we were judging ourselves aright, we should not now be condemned;

If the foot should say, "Because I am a hand, I am not part a part the body," would it not indeed be a part of the body?

Or if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I am not a part of the body," would it be any less a part of the body?

that there should be no disunion in the body, but that members mutual care for one another.

Now I should like you all to speak with "tongues"; but I should rather that you prophesied, For he who prophesies is greater than he who speaks with tongues, unless he interprets, so that the church may be built up.

Now brothers, if I should come to you speaking with tongues, what should I benefit you, unless I speak to you some revelation, or knowledge, or prophecy, or teaching?