For Christ has not sent me to baptise, but to preach glad tidings; not in wisdom of word, that the cross of the Christ may not be made vain.

And when I came to you, brothers, I came not to proclaim God's great secret purpose in fine language of philosophy;

but to us God revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searcheth all things ??ven the deep things of God.

And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.

And these things, brethren, I have, in figure, applied to my self and Apollos, for your sakes, that you may learn in us not to think more of teachers than what has been written; and that no one of you be vain of one to the injury of another.

But, if the Lord is willing, I shall come to you without delay; and then I shall know not the fine speeches of these conceited people, but their power.

To unmarried people and to widows I would say this: It would be a fine thing for them to remain single, as I am.

Therefore I consider this to be good because of the present distress: It is fine for a man to remain as he is.

But I have used none of these things. Now I have not written these things that it should be thus in my case; for it were good for me rather to die than that any one should make vain my boast.

Charity has patience, is kind; charity is not envious, is not vain, is not puffed up;

By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.

But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.

And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.

For what shall they do being immersed for the dead, if in fine the dead rise not? and why are they immersed for the dead?

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.