[when we are] slandered, we encourage. We have become like the refuse of the world, the offscouring of all [things], until now.

But the foolish [things] of the world God chose in order that he might put to shame the wise, and the weak [things] of the world God chose in order that he might put to shame the strong,

By no means [did I mean] the sexually immoral people of this world or the greedy people and swindlers or idolaters, since then you would have to depart out of the world.

Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if by you the world is judged, are you unworthy of the most insignificant courts?

and those who make use of the world as [if they] do not make full use of [it]. For the present form of this world is passing away.

When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside the things of a child.