For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.”

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

But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”—

For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness,”

I have applied all these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, brothers, that you may learn by us not to go beyond what is written, that none of you may be puffed up in favor of one against another.

Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, “The two will become one flesh.”

For it is written in the Law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain.” Is it for oxen that God is concerned?

Does he not certainly speak for our sake? It was written for our sake, because the plowman should plow in hope and the thresher thresh in hope of sharing in the crop.

Do not be idolaters as some of them were; as it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.”

Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come.

In the Law it is written, “By people of strange tongues and by the lips of foreigners will I speak to this people, and even then they will not listen to me, says the Lord.”

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

When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”