Christ the Power and Wisdom of God

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but it is God’s power to us who are being saved.

For since, in God’s wisdom, the world did not know God through wisdom, God was pleased to save those who believe through the foolishness of the message preached.

If anyone’s work is burned up, it will be lost, but he will be saved; yet it will be like an escape through fire.

turn that one over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the Day of the Lord.

For you, wife, how do you know whether you will save your husband? Or you, husband, how do you know whether you will save your wife?

To the weak I became weak, in order to win the weak. I have become all things to all people, so that I may by every possible means save some.

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

You are also saved by it, if you hold to the message I proclaimed to you—unless you believed for no purpose.

On the first day of the week, each of you is to set something aside and save in keeping with how he prospers, so that no collections will need to be made when I come.