For tho' the doctrine of the cross seems folly to those that perish: yet we that are to be saved, do feel its energy is divine.

those who were looked upon by the world as vile, as despicable, as nothing, these has God chosen to reduce their sufficiency to nothing.

For we are fellow labourers employed by God: you are his field, and his mansion.

let no man deceive himself: if any among you pretends to worldly wisdom, let him commence fool, in order to be truly wise.

flee licentiousness. no other sin that a man commits does affect the church as a body: but the licentious commits a fraud against the whole body to which he belongs.

if any man thinks it would be a reflexion upon his manhood to be a stale batchelor, and so ought to marry; let him follow his bent, he is at liberty, let such marry.

neither let us commit fornication, as some of them did, of whom three and twenty thousand fell in one day.

wherefore let him that thinks he stands firm, take heed lest he fall.

wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

a woman may as well have the tonsure, as not wear her veil: the one is as indecent as the other.

A man ought not to be veil'd: he has the honour of being invested with authority from God, and may glory in his priority to the woman.

therefore the woman ought to be veil'd, out of regard to the angels.

Be you yourselves judges: is it decent for a woman to pray to God without a veil?

on the contrary, such is an ornament to a woman: because it was given her as a sort of veil.

for first, I hear, that when you come together in the church, you fall into parties; and I believe it is true of some of you.

Social affection will never fail: but as for prophecies, they shall be out of use; as for languages, they shall cease; as for knowledge, it shall vanish away.

let all your transactions flow from social affections.