For after the world by its wisdom--as God in His wisdom had ordained--had failed to gain the knowledge of God, God was pleased, by the apparent foolishness of the Message which we preach, to save those who accepted it.

What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? They are just God's servants, through whose efforts, and as the Lord granted power to each, you accepted the faith.

But let me recall to you, brethren, the Good News which I brought you, which you accepted, and on which you are standing,

So that he who gives his daughter in marriage does well, and yet he who does not give her in marriage will do better.