Paul, by vocation an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and brother Sosthenes.

For when the world, through wisdom, knew not God in the wisdom of God: it pleased God through foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.

If any man's work burn; he shall suffer loss. But he shall be safe himself, nevertheless yet as it were through fire.

We are fools for Christ's sake, and ye are wise through Christ: we are weak, and ye are strong. Ye are honorable, and we are despised.

For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ: yet have ye not many fathers. In Christ Jesus, I have begotten you through the gospel.

And so through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish for whom Christ died.

Brethren I would not that ye should be ignorant of this, how that our fathers were all under a cloud, and all passed through the sea,

To one is given, through the spirit, the utterance of wisdom; to another is given the utterance of knowledge by the same spirit;

But thanks be unto God, which hath given us victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.