It is written: “‘As surely as I live,’ says the Lord, ‘every knee will bow before me; every tongue will acknowledge God.’”

For even Christ did not please himself but, as it is written: “The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.”

and, moreover, that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written: “Therefore I will praise you among the Gentiles; I will sing the praises of your name.”

Rather, as it is written: “Those who were not told about him will see, and those who have not heard will understand.”

For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”

Therefore, as it is written: “Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord.”

However, as it is written: “What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived”— the things God has prepared for those who love him—

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness”;

Now, brothers and sisters, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, so that you may learn from us the meaning of the saying, “Do not go beyond what is written.” Then you will not be puffed up in being a follower of one of us over against the other.

For it is written in the Law of Moses: “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.” Is it about oxen that God is concerned?

Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written: “The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.”

In the Law it is written: “With other tongues and through the lips of foreigners I will speak to this people, but even then they will not listen to me, says the Lord.”

So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit.

When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”

It is written: “I believed; therefore I have spoken.” Since we have that same spirit of faith, we also believe and therefore speak,

as it is written: “The one who gathered much did not have too much, and the one who gathered little did not have too little.”

As it is written: “They have freely scattered their gifts to the poor; their righteousness endures forever.”

For all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse, as it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a pole.”

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman.

For it is written: “Be glad, barren woman, you who never bore a child; shout for joy and cry aloud, you who were never in labor; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband.”

Then I said, ‘Here I am—it is written about me in the scroll— I have come to do your will, my God.’”

for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”

Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near.