But I have used none of these rights, and I have not written this to make it happen that way for me. For it would be better for me to die than for anyone to deprive me of my boast!

For it is written:

I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
and I will set aside the understanding of the experts.

in order that, as it is written: The one who boasts must boast in the Lord.

But as it is written:

What eye did not see and ear did not hear,
and what never entered the human mind—
God prepared this for those who love Him.

It is written in the law:

I will speak to these people
by people of other languages
and by the lips of foreigners,
and even then, they will not listen to Me,

says the Lord.

So it is written: The first man Adam became a living being; the last Adam became a life-giving Spirit.

When this corruptible is clothed
with incorruptibility,
and this mortal is clothed
with immortality,
then the saying that is written will take place:
Death has been swallowed up in victory.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, since it is written: He catches the wise in their craftiness;

Now, brothers, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, so that you may learn from us the saying: “Nothing beyond what is written.” The purpose is that none of you will be inflated with pride in favor of one person over another.

For it is written in the law of Moses, Do not muzzle an ox while it treads out grain. Is God really concerned with oxen?

Or isn’t He really saying it for us? Yes, this is written for us, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes should do so in hope of sharing the crop.

Don’t become idolaters as some of them were; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and got up to play.

Now these things happened to them as examples, and they were written as a warning to us, on whom the ends of the ages have come.