so that, as the Scripture says, "Let him who would boast, boast of the Lord!"

Yet there is a wisdom that we impart when we are with people who have a mature faith, but it is not what this world calls wisdom, nor what the authorities of this world, doomed as they are to pass away, would call so.

It is a wisdom unknown to any of the authorities of this world, for otherwise they would never have crucified our glorious Lord.

I wrote you in my letter not to associate with immoral people??10 not that you are to have nothing whatever to do with the immoral people of the world, any more than with its greedy and grasping people or idolaters, for then you would have to leave the world altogether.

To all who are unmarried and to widows, I would say this: It is an excellent thing if they can remain single as I am.

To other people I would say, though not as Christ's command, if a Christian has a wife who is not a believer, and she is willing to live with him, he must not divorce her,

For the husband who is not a believer is consecrated through union with his wife, and the woman who is not a believer is consecrated through union with her Christian husband, for otherwise your children would be unblessed, but, as it is, they are consecrated.

But if you do marry, there is no sin in that. And if a girl marries, it is no sin. But those who marry will have worldly trouble, which I would like to spare you.

For I would not have you forget, brothers, that though our forefathers were all protected by the cloud, and all passed safely through the sea,

But if we recognized our own condition, we would not incur this judgment.

You know that when you were heathen you would stray off, as impulse directed, to idols that could not speak.

If all the body were eye, how would we hear? If it were all ear, how could we have a sense of smell?

If they were all one part, where would the body be?

But in public worship I would rather say five words with my understanding so as to instruct others also than ten thousand words in an ecstasy.