For God’s foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God’s weakness is stronger than human strength.

But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong;

And I came to you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling.

We are fools for the sake of Christ, but you are sensible people in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are honored, but we are dishonored.

It is not everyone, however, who has this knowledge. Since some have become so accustomed to idols until now, they still think of the food they eat as food offered to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

But take care that this liberty of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak.

For if others see you, who possess knowledge, eating in the temple of an idol, might they not, since their conscience is weak, be encouraged to the point of eating food sacrificed to idols?

So by your knowledge the weak brother or sister for whom Christ died is destroyed.

But when you thus sin against brothers and sisters and wound their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

To the weak I became weak, so that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all people, that I might by all means save some.

For this reason many of you are weak and ill, and some have died.

On the contrary, the members of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable,

It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power.