For ye see your calling, brethren, that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called:

But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;

Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I wish ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.

And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he who hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.

For though I am free from all men, yet I have made myself servant to all, that I might gain the more.

And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;

To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that 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 might by all means save some.