For since in God's providence the world with all its wisdom did not come to know God, God chose, through the folly of the gospel message, to save those who had faith in him.

But since we do incur it, we are disciplined by the Lord, so that we may not be condemned along with the world.

So since you are ambitious for spiritual endowments, you must try to excel in them in ways that will do good to the church.

For since it was through a man that we have death, it is through a man also that we have the raising of the dead.