For consider your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble;

that no flesh might boast before God.

But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.

Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to go beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.

You are already filled. You have already become rich. You have come to reign without us. Yes, and I wish that you did reign, that we also might reign with you.

You are puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.

For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, not being myself under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law;

to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law.

To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.

You know that when you were heathen, you were led away to those mute idols, however you might be led.

However in the church I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in another language.