for, seeing in the wisdom of God the world through the wisdom knew not God, it did please God through the foolishness of the preaching to save those believing.

Who, then, is Paul, and who Apollos, but ministrants through whom ye did believe, and to each as the Lord gave?

for first, indeed, ye coming together in an assembly, I hear of divisions being among you, and partly I believe [it],

all things it beareth, all it believeth, all it hopeth, all it endureth.

so that the tongues are for a sign, not to the believing, but to the unbelieving; and the prophesy [is] not for the unbelieving, but for the believing,

through which also ye are being saved, in what words I proclaimed good news to you, if ye hold fast, except ye did believe in vain,

whether, then, I or they, so we preach, and so ye did believe.