For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.

What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each.

Lawsuits Against Believers

When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints?

For, in the first place, when you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you. And I believe it in part,

Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Thus tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers, while prophecy is a sign not for unbelievers but for believers.

and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.