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?

Surely he says this for us, doesn’t he? Yes, this was written for us, because whoever plows and threshes should be able to do so in the hope of sharing in the harvest.

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.”

These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the culmination of the ages has come.

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.”