For it seems to me that God means us apostles to come in at the very end, like the doomed gladiators in the arena! We are made a spectacle to the world, to angels and to men!

Sage, scribe, critic of this world, where are they all? Has not God stultified the wisdom of the world?

No, God has chosen what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God has chosen what is weak in the world to shame what is strong;

We do discuss 'wisdom' with those who are mature; only it is not the wisdom of this world or of the dethroned Powers who rule this world,

I did not mean you were literally to avoid contact with the immoral in this world, with the lustful and the thievish, or with idolaters; in that case you would have to leave the world altogether.

Do you not know the saints are to manage the world? If the world is to come under your jurisdiction, are you incompetent to adjudicate upon trifles?

Have we no right to travel with a Christian wife, like the rest of the apostles, like the brothers of the Lord, like Cephas himself?

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I argued like a child; now that I am a man, I am done with childish ways.