For since, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom has not known God, God has been pleased by the foolishness of the preaching to save those that believe.

For I did not judge it well to know anything among you save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

For what knowest thou, O wife, if thou shalt save thy husband? or what knowest thou, O husband, if thou shalt save thy wife?

concerning then the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God save one.

I became to the weak, as weak, in order that I might gain the weak. To all I have become all things, in order that at all events I might save some.