Where is the wise man? Where the scribe? Where the disputer of this world? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

that no flesh might glory before God.

But from him it is that ye are in Christ Jesus, who from God was made to us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption;

that your faith might not rest on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God.

But we did not receive the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that have been given to us by the grace of God;

I fed you with milk, not with meat; for ye were not yet able to bear it. Nor indeed are ye able even now;

the work of every one will be made manifest; for the day will show it; because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will prove what every ones work is.

Already ye are full; already ye are rich; without us ye have become kings; and I would indeed ye were kings, that we also might reign with you.

For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles as lowest, as men sentenced to death; for we have been made a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men.

And ye are puffed up, and did not rather mourn, so that he that committed this deed might be separated from among you.

And such were some of you; but ye were washed, but ye were made holy, but ye were accepted as righteous in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

For the unbelieving husband hath been made holy by his wife, and the unbelieving wife hath been made holy by the brother; otherwise were your children unclean, but, as it is, they are holy.

Wast thou called being a slave, care not for it; but even if thou canst be made free, use it rather.

For being free from all men, yet I made myself a servant to all, that I might gain the more;

and to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those under the Law, as under the Law, not being myself under the Law, that I might gain those under the Law;

to those without the Law, as without the Law, being not without a law before God, but under the law of Christ, that I might gain those without the Law;

to the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak; I have become all things to all, that I might by all means save some.

For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or freemen; and were all made to drink one Spirit.

that there might be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care one for another.

yet in the church I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might also instruct others, than ten thousand words in an [unknown] tongue.

If therefore the whole church be assembled in one place, and all be speaking with tongues, and there come in those who are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?

For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ will all be made alive.

Every first day of the week let each of you lay by him something in store, according as he hath prospered; that the collections may not have to be made when I come.

yea, we ourselves had within ourselves the sentence of death, that we might not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead;

And in this confidence it was my purpose to come to you before, that ye might receive a second benefit;

For if I make you sorrowful, who is there to make me glad but he that is made sorrowful by me?

And I wrote about this very matter, that I might not on my coming have sorrow from those who ought to gladden me, having confidence in all of you, that my joy is the joy of you all.

For out of much distress and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that ye should be made sorrowful, but that ye might know the exceeding love which I have for you.

For to this end also I wrote, that I might know by putting it to the proof, whether ye are obedient in all things.

that Satan might not gain an advantage over us; for we are not ignorant of his devices.

For even that which was made glorious hath ceased to be glorious in this respect, by reason of the glory by which it is exceeded.

and do not as Moses did, who put a veil over his face, that the children of Israel might not steadfastly look on the end of that which was to be done away.

For we know that, if our earthly tenthabitation be destroyed, we have a building provided by God, a house not made with hands, everlasting, in the heavens.

For we must all be made manifest before the judgmentseat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in his body, according to what he did, whether good or bad.

Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men; but to God we have been made manifest, and I hope have been made manifest in your consciences also.

Him, who knew not sin, he made sin for us, that we might become Gods righteousness in him.

Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorrowful, but that your sorrow produced repentance. For the sorrow which ye felt had respect to God, that ye might in nothing receive injury from me.

Although, then, I wrote to you, it was not on account of him that did the wrong, nor of him who suffered wrong; but that your earnestness for us might be made manifest to you in the sight of God.

for if in anything I have boasted to him of you, I am not put to shame; but as we spoke all things to you in truth, so also our boasting, which we made before Titus, was found to be truth;

so that we urged Titus, that, as he had already made a beginning, so he would also finish among you this bounty also.

For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.

but to make an equality; at the present season your abundance meeting their deficiency, that their abundance may at another time meet your deficiency; that there may be equality;

I thought it necessary therefore to exhort the brethren to go before to you, and make up beforehand your bounty, which was already announced, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not of covetousness.

so that we may preach the gospel in the regions beyond you; not boasting, in anothers line, of things made ready to our hand.

For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye did not receive, or another gospel, which ye did not accept, well might ye bear with it.

Did I commit an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I preached to you the gospel of God without charge?

And that I might not be too much lifted up by the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan, to buffet me, that I might not be too much lifted up.

In respect to this I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me;

and he said to me, My grace is sufficient for thee; for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather boast in my weaknesses, that the strength of Christ may abide upon me.

who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from the present evil world, according to the will of God our Father;

and made progress in Judaism beyond many of the same age with me in my nation, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

to reveal his Son within me, that I might publish the glad tidings of him among the gentiles, immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood,

and that because of the false brethren stealthily brought in, who crept in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring into bondage;

to whom not even for an hour did we yield by the required subjection, that the truth of the gospel might still remain with you.

but knowing that a man is not accepted as righteous by the works of the Law, but by faith in Christ Jesus, we also have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be accepted as righteous by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the Law; for by the works of the Law shall no flesh be accepted as righteous.

For I through the Law died to the Law, that I might live to God.

to the end that in Christ Jesus the blessing promised to Abraham might come to the gentiles, that we through faith might receive the Spirit which was promised.

But the promises were made to Abraham and "to his offspring." He doth not say, "and to offsprings," as speaking of many, but, as speaking of one, "and to thy offspring," which is Christ.

but the Scripture shut up all under sin, that the blessing promised through faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

So then the Law hath been our schoolmaster, to lead us to Christ, that we might be accepted as righteous through faith;

to redeem those under the Law, that we might be adopted as sons.

Stand firm in the liberty with which Christ made us free, and be not again bound fast to the yoke of bondage.

which he made to abound toward us, in all wisdom and understanding;

having made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in himself

that he might show in the ages to come the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

For it is he who is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of partition between us, that is, the enmity;

having abolished in his flesh the law of commandments contained in ordinances; that he might create of the two one new man in himself, thus making peace,

and might reconcile both to God in one body by the cross, having slain on it the enmity.

that by revelation the mystery was made known to me, as I wrote before in few words,

which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it hath now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;

to the intent that now to the principalities and powers in the heavenly regions might be known through the church the manifold wisdom of God,

that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;

He who descended is the same as he who ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.

But all things, when reproved, are made manifest by the light; for whatever maketh manifest is light.

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the bath of the water in the word;

that he himself might present to himself the church, glorious, having no spot or wrinkle, or any such thing, but that it should be holy and without blemish.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.

and that the great part of the brethren, made confident in the Lord by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.

but made himself of no consideration, taking the form of a servant, and becoming like men;

Be anxious about nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God;

endued with all power according to the might of his glory unto all patience and longsuffering with joy;

having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him, I say, whether the things on earth, or those in the heavens.

and ye are made full in him, who is the head of all principality and power;

and having disarmed principalities and powers, he made a public show of them, and led them captive in triumph in him.

nor from men sought we glory, either from you, or from others; though we might have used authority as apostles of Christ.

For ye remember, brethren, our labor and toil, how laboring night and day, that we might not be burdensome to any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.

For this cause, when I too could no longer forbear, I sent in order to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter might have tempted you, and our labor should prove in vain.

then we who are living, we who are left, shall be caught up together with them in clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we be ever with the Lord.

and to you the distressed rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be manifested from heaven, with the angels of his might,

and in all deceit of unrighteousness for those who are perishing; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

neither did we eat any mans bread for nought, but were working with labor and travail night and day, that we might not be burdensome to any of you.

knowing this, that the Law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and unruly, for the ungodly and sinful, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

But for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me especially Christ Jesus might show forth all his longsuffering, as an example to those who should hereafter believe in him to life everlasting.

having faith, and a good conscience, which some thrusting away made shipwreck concerning the faith;

of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme.

I exhort then, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men;

but is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and incorruption to light through the gospel,

But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me, that the preaching might be fully accomplished by me, and that all the gentiles might hear; and I was delivered out of the lions mouth.

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify to himself a people to be his own, zealous in good works.

that having been accepted as righteous by his grace, we might become heirs according to the hope of everlasting life.