Just the opposite: God chose what the world calls foolish to put the wise to shame, what the world calls weak to put the strong to shame,

Yet, when among mature believers we do set forth a wisdom, but a wisdom that does not belong to this world or to the leaders of this world who are passing away;

not that you are to stop all dealings with sexually immoral people of this world, any more than with its greedy graspers, or its idolaters, for then you would have to get clear out of the world.

Do you not know that God's people are to judge the world? And if the world is to be judged before you, are you unfit to try such petty cases?

and those who are enjoying the world as though they were not entirely absorbed in it. For the outward order of this world is passing away.

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I laid aside my childish ways.