so that your faith would not be based on human wisdom but on God's power.

None of the rulers of this world understood it, because if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

not at all meaning the people of this world who are immoral, greedy, robbers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world.

I would like everyone to be unmarried, like I am. However, each person has a special gift from God, one this and another that.

For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified because of her husband. Otherwise, your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

This is my defense to those who would examine me:

But I have not used any of these rights, and I'm not writing this so that they may be applied in my case. I would rather die than let anyone deprive me of my reason for boasting.

For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast about, for this obligation has been entrusted to me. How terrible it would be for me if I didn't preach the gospel!

But if we judged ourselves correctly, we would not be judged.

If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be?

Now if all of it were one part, there wouldn't be a body, would there?

But in church I would rather speak five words with my mind to instruct others than 10,000 words in a foreign language.