Paul of Tarsus

“ Hasn't God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, God was pleased, through the foolishness of the proclamation, to save those who believe. 22Thus also, Jews are asking for signs and Greeks seeking wisdom, 23but we proclaim a crucified Christ—an offense to Jews and foolishness to the nations, 24except for those who are called, both Jews and Greeks—a Christ who is God's power and God's wisdom, 25because the folly of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God stronger than men. ”

“ 14Yet the thoughtful man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for it is foolishness to him, and he is not able to understand, because it is investigated spiritually; ”

“ Servants, through whom you believed, and each as the Lord gave. 6I planted, Apollos watered, but God was giving growth. 7And so neither is the planter anything, nor the waterer, rather it is the grower—God. 8In fact, the planter and the waterer are one, though each will receive his own reward according to his own labour. 9For together with God we are co-workers—you are God's field, God's building. ”

“ The unmarried man worries about the things of the Lord, how he can please the Lord; 33but the married man worries about the things of the world, how he can please his wife— 34and he has become divided within himself. The woman who is unmarried, and the virgin, also worries about the things of the Lord, so she can be holy and in the Spirit; but the married woman worries about the things of the world, how she can please her husband. ”

“ But while knowledge makes us feel important, it is love that strengthens the church. 2 Anyone who claims to know all the answers doesn’t really know very much. 3 But the person who loves God is the one whom God recognizes. ”

“ With a rod should I come to you, or with love and a spirit of gentleness?
Chapter 5
1It is heard everywhere that there is sexual immorality among you, such immorality as is nowhere among the nations, since some man has his father's wife. 2And you are filled with pride! But isn't it better you grieved? So that he would have been cast from your midst, he who did this deed. 3For although being absent in the body, I am still present in the spirit. ”

“ Some are accustomed to thinking of idols as being real, so when they eat food that has been offered to idols, they think of it as the worship of real gods, and their weak consciences are violated. 8 It’s true that we can’t win God’s approval by what we eat. ”

“ For Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed. 8So let us also celebrate the festival, not with old yeast nor with yeast of wickedness and evil, but with unleavened bread of purity and truth.
9I wrote to you in the letter not to mix with sexually immoral men— 10not all the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and grasping, or idol worshippers, since then you would have to go out from the world. 11But now I write to you not to mix with someone if, having been called brother, he is sexually immoral or greedy or idolatrous or slanderous or a drunkard or grasping. ”

“ So Satan cannot tempt you because of your lack of self-control. 6However, I am saying this as a concession, not as an order. 7Rather, I want every man to be even like myself, but each has his own gift from God—one like this, the other like that. 8I am saying to the unmarried men and the widows, it is good for them if they can remain like I am also; 9but if they are not being self-controlled, let them marry, for it is better to marry than to be burning. ”

“ But God will destroy both; the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14 And God has both raised up the Lord
Chapter 7
1Now, about what you wrote, it is good for a woman’s man [25] not to touch her, 2but because of sexual immoralities let each man have a woman for himself, and let each woman have her own man. 3Let the man give away what he owes to the woman; but, likewise, also the woman to the man. 4The woman does not have authority over her own body, but the man ”

“ And I wish you did rule, so that we too could rule with you. 9For I think God displayed us, his emissaries, last—like men set to die—because we became a spectacle for the world and for angels and for men. 10We are fools through Christ, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are glorious, but we are dishonourable. 11Up to the current hour we are hungry and thirsty and naked and beaten and homeless and exhausted 12and working with our own hands. While abused we bless; while persecuted we endure ”

“ 13So now this remains—trust, hope, love—these three things, but the greatest of these is love. ”

“ But let him watch how he builds! 11For no one is able to lay another foundation alongside what has been laid, which is Jesus Christ.
12Now if anyone builds on the foundation—gold, silver, precious stones, timber, a courtyard, thatching— 13each one's work will become apparent, since the Day will make it plain, because it is revealed by fire; and the work of each, what it is like, that fire will test. 14If the work that someone built remains, he will receive a reward. 15If someone's work is burned down, it will be lost ”