Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.

for you are still carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like mere men?

Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours:

For I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last, as men condemned to death; for we have been made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.

For I wish that all men were even as I myself. But each one has his own gift from God, one in this manner and another in that.

You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men.

Serving All Men

For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win the more;

to the weak I became as weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.

I speak as to wise men; judge for yourselves what I say.

just as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.

The Greatest Gift

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.

For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God, for no one understands him; however, in the spirit he speaks mysteries.

But he who prophesies speaks edification and exhortation and comfort to men.

In the law it is written: “With men of other tongues and other lips I will speak to this people; And yet, for all that, they will not hear Me,” says the Lord.

If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men the most pitiable.

If, in the manner of men, I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantage is it to me? If the dead do not rise, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”

All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of animals, another of fish, and another of birds.

For they refreshed my spirit and yours. Therefore acknowledge such men.