but God has chosen the foolish things of the world, that he may confound the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world, that he may confound the strong;

not at all with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous and the extortioners, or with the idolators; since you ought therefore to come out of the world.

Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? and if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy of the smallest judgments?

and those using the world, as those not using it thoroughly: for the fashion of this world is passing away.

When I was an infant, I talked like an infant, I thought like an infant, I reasoned like an infant: when I became a man, I put away the things of the infant.