There is a glory and beauty of the sun, another glory of the moon, and yet another [distinctive] glory of the stars; and one star differs from another in glory and brilliance.

But I say this by way of concession, not by way of command.

So that is the way I run, with no uncertainty as to winning. That is the way I box, not like one that punches the air.

I wish all people could be like myself, but each one has his own gift from God, one in this way and another in that way.

Therefore whether I or those, in this way we preached, and in this way you believed.

For the word of the cross seems foolish to those who are on the way to destruction; but to us who are on the way to salvation it is the power of God.