For it is written: I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; and I will set aside the understanding of the prudent.

If, then, you have controversies pertaining to things of this life, set them to judge who are the least esteemed in the church.

Neither be you idolaters, as some of them were, as it is written: Tho people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to engage in idolatrous sport.

If any one of the unbelievers invites you to a feast, and you are disposed to go, eat any thing that is set before you, asking no questions for conscience sake.

and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said: Take, eat; this is my body, which is broken for you; do this in remembrance of me.

and if any one is hungry, let him eat at home, that you come not together for condemnation. But other things I will set in order when I come.

but God gives it a body, as it pleases him; and to every seed, its proper body.